Karen Khachanov aces Egor Gerasimov 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in Adelaide on Friday. Khachanov will square off with Marin Cilic in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 55 minutes.
The Russian added to his prize money $ 11,730 after winning this match. He has won already $ 27,220 as of now in this event. If he wins the next match, Khachanov will add $ 21,145 to his earnings to get in total $ 48,365.
Highlights Karen Khachanov vs. Egor Gerasimov Adelaide International 1 – Adelaide
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Karen scored 86 points vs. Egor’s 75.
Khachanov
Khachanov won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points after he converted only 46%
(6/13) of the procured opportunities.Gerasimov
On the other side, Egor was not so effective in converting his break points (only 38% – 3/8). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Khachanov and Gerasimov is 3-0 for Karen.
Draw and next match H2H: Karen Khachanov vs. Marin Cilic – stats
Khachanov will come up against Cilic in the semifinal.
This will be the 3rd time that Karen Khachanov and Marin Cilic square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cilic won 7-65 3-6 6-4 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati back in 2018.
Live score progression and stats
Khachanov had a great start in this set after breaking Egor Gerasimov in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more to do for Khachanov to win the set as Egor managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Karen kept his focus to break Egor in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
Gerasimov surrendered the 1st game (1-0) when he was comfortably leading 40-0.
Karen converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 7th (3-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 11th
game (5-5 40-A). Also, on the other side, the Belarussian converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 30-40) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).They contested 97 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Karen won just 3 points more than Gerasimov (50-47). The Russian dropped 20 points on serve (32-20). on the other side of the net, the Belarussian conceded 18 points on serve (27-18).
Khachanov had a strong start of this set after breaking Egor Gerasimov in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Khachanov to win the set because Egor succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3) and in the 6th (3-3) game. The Russian kept his focus to break Gerasimov in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Khachanov converted 50% of his break points (4/8). He had 8 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (2-0 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 7th (3-3 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Gerasimov was spot on in converting all his break points in the 4th (0-3 30-40) and the 6th game (2-3 40-A).
They played 64 points. The Russian was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Egor (36-28). The Russian surrendered 12 points on serve (14-12). On the other side, Egor conceded 22 points on serve (16-22).
Tennis Scores in Adelaide
- Marin CilicCilic – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Mikael YmerYmer (7-69 4-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Tommy PaulPaul (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marin CilicCilic – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (2-0) – H2H details and stats