Ilya Ivashka upsets Pablo Carreno-Busta 7-6(2) 6-3 in the quarter in Salem Open on Thursday. Ivashka will seek to keep on going in this event against Emil Ruusuvuori in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes.
Ilya added to his prize money $ 13,610 after winning this match. He has won already $ 32,350 till now in this event. If he wins the next match, the Belarussian will add $ 23,650 to his earnings to get in total $ 56,000.
Highlights Ilya Ivashka vs. Pablo Carreno-Busta Winston-Salem Open – Winston-Salem
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ilya scored 72 points vs. Carreno-Busta’s 54.
Ivashka
The Belarussian served pretty well to win 86% of the points (37/43) behind his first serve, and he won 73% points (8/11) on his second serve. Ivashka fired 11 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Ivashka was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (2/4).
Carreno-Busta
On the other side, the Spaniard wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, Ilya was just to good and the Spaniard had no opportunity to win this match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Ivashka and Carreno-Busta is 1-2 for Pablo.
Draw and next match H2H: Ilya Ivashka vs. Emil Ruusuvuori – stats
Ivashka will take on Ruusuvuori in the semifinal.
This will be the 3rd time that Ilya Ivashka and Emil Ruusuvuori face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Ivashka and Ruusuvuori (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Ivashka won 6-1 6-2 in the 1st round in Munich back in April 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. the Belarussian had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-2.
Tiebreak
The Belarussian won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 6th (5-1) and 9th (7-2) point.
Ivashka won the tiebreak 7-2 after he conquered a decisive 5-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
They played 70 points. The Belarussian conquered the set after winning 8 more points than Carreno-Busta (39-31
). The Belarussian surrendered 6 points on serve (28-6). on the other side of the net, Carreno-Busta conceded 11 points on serve (25-11).Ivashka won the set after he broke Carreno-Busta in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
The Belarussian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 4th (2-2 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Ivashka didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 55 points. The Belarussian won 11 more points than the Spaniard (33-22). Ilya was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (16-3). In addition, on the other side, the Spaniard conceded 17 points on serve (19-17).
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Marcos GironGiron (7-62 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Mikael YmerYmer – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-72 6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Richard GasquetGasquet (7-65 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-62 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Mikael YmerYmer (0-1) – H2H details and stats