Karen Khachanov tops Mackenzie Mcdonald 7-6(3) 6-3 in the 1st round in Doha on Monday. Khachanov will fight against David Goffin or Emil Ruusuvuori in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This run will match his most significant achievement in this event. Here you can see his history at this event.
Highlights Karen Khachanov vs. Mackenzie Mcdonald Qatar ExxonMobil Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 70 points vs. the American’s 56.
Khachanov
Khachanov served pretty well to win 82% of the points (40/49) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (9/15) on his second serve. Karen was great in converting all the break points (2/2).
Mcdonald
On the other side, Mcdonald wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Khachanov and Mcdonald is 3-0 for Karen.
Draw and next match H2H: Karen Khachanov vs. David Goffin or Emil Ruusuvuori – stats
Khachanov will square off with either David Goffin or Emil Ruusuvuori in the 2nd round. The head to head is 1-4 vs. David Goffin and 1-0 vs. Emil Ruusuvuori.
Live score progression and stats
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, the Russian won the breaker at 7-3.
Tiebreak
Karen won 2 minibreaks in the 7th (4-3) and 10th (7-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
They contested 71 points. Karen won 5 more points than Mcdonald (38-33). Khachanov dropped 7 points on serve (32-7). In addition, on the other side, Mcdonald conceded 6 points on serve (26-6).
Khachanov won the set after he broke the American in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Karen was unerring in converting all his break points in the 5th (2-2 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40). On the other side, Mcdonald was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd game (1-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 55 points. Karen was the one to win the set after conquering 11 more points than the American (33-22). Karen lost 8 points on serve (18-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Mcdonald conceded 15 points on serve (14-15).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Daniel EvansEvans – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (6-2 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-66 1-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-63 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-74 7-66 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- David GoffinGoffin – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Lloyd HarrisHarris (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Taro DanielDaniel – Andy MurrayMurray (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Marin CilicCilic (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H details and stats