Thanasi Kokkinakis stuns John Isner 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 7-6(4) in the 2nd round in Adelaide on Wednesday. Kokkinakis will face Aleksandar Vukic in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 42 minutes. His best result in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Highlights Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. John Isner Adelaide International 2 – Adelaide
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Thanasi won this match even if he conquered the same amount of points of Isner (111 vs. 111).
Kokkinakis
Thanasi served very well to win 86% of the points (64/74) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (24/35) on his second serve. Kokkinakis struck 15 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Thanasi wasn’t able to conquer any break point to win the match only at the tiebreaks.
Isner
On the other side, John wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Kokkinakis and Isner is 1-0 for Thanasi.
Draw and next match H2H: Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Aleksandar Vukic – stats
Kokkinakis will fight against Vukic in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Aleksandar Vukic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, John won the breaker at 7-5.
Tiebreak
Isner won 6 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 3rd (2-1), 6th (4-2), 10th (5-5), 11th (6-5) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, the Australian won a minibreak in the 8th (4-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, Thanasi was unerring in converting all his break points in the 5th (2-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 86 points. The American conquered the set after winning 4 more points than Kokkinakis (45-41). The American surrendered 12 points on serve (33-12). In addition, on the other side, Thanasi conceded 12 points on serve (29-12).
Likewise, in the course of this set, the affair went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Eventually, the Australian won the tiebreak at 7-5.
Tiebreak
Kokkinakis won 3 minibreaks in the 7th (3-4), 10th (6-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, John won a minibreak in the 4th (3-1) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Moreover, on the other side, Kokkinakis didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 69 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Australian won this set even if he scored less points 3 than the American (33-36). Thanasi conceded 7 points on serve (28-7). On the losing side, Isner conceded 5 points on serve (29-5).
Also through this set, nothing could divide these 2 players and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, Kokkinakis won the breaker at 7-4.
Tiebreak
Thanasi won 2 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0) and 11th (7-4) point.
Kokkinakis won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Furthermore, on the other side, the Australian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 67 points. The Australian was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than John (36-31). Kokkinakis was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (30-3). on the other side of the net, the American conceded 6 points on serve (28-6).
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