Hubert Hurkacz beats Nick Kyrgios 7-6(4) 6-7(5) 6-1 in the quarter in Montreal on Friday. Hurkacz will try to keep the momentum against Casper Ruud in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 46 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the quarter in 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Pole added to his prize money $ 124,235 after winning this match. He has won already $ 273,320 until now in this tournament. If he wins the next match, Hurkacz will add $ 226,510 to his earnings to get in total $ 499,830.
Highlights Hubert Hurkacz vs. Nick Kyrgios National Bank Open – Montreal
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Hubert scored 109 points vs. the Australian’s 95.
Hurkacz
Hurkacz served exceptionally well to win 85% of the points (52/61) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (24/38) on his second serve. Hurkacz blasted 20 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Pole won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points as he converted only 33% (2/6) of the procured opportunities.
Kyrgios
On the other side, Nick wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Hurkacz and Kyrgios is 2-0 for Hubert.
Draw and next match H2H: Hubert Hurkacz vs. Casper Ruud – stats
Hurkacz will take on Ruud in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Hubert Hurkacz and Casper Ruud clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Ruud won 6-2 6-3 3-6 6-3 in the 4th round in Paris back in May 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, Hurkacz won the tiebreak at 7-4.
Tiebreak
The Pole won 5 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 5th (4-1), 8th (5-3), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the Australian won 3 minibreaks in the 3rd (1-2), 6th (2-4) and 7th (3-4) point.
The Pole won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 4-2 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 6-4, 7-4
They contested 79 points. Hurkacz was the one to win the set after conquering 7 points more than Kyrgios (43-36). Hubert lost 11 points on serve (30-11). on the other side of the net, Nick conceded 13 points on serve (25-13).
Likewise, in the course of this set, the affair went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Eventually, the Australian won the breaker at 7-5.
The Australian was unable to break Hubert in the 2nd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
Nick won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 5th (3-2), 9th (5-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Hurkacz won 2 minibreaks in the 7th (3-4) and 11th (5-6) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
They contested 78 points. This set was so close that, Nick won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Kyrgios surrendered 7 points on serve (30-7). In addition, on the other side, Hurkacz conceded 9 points on serve (32-9).
Hurkacz had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Nick Kyrgios in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. The Pole extended his lead after breaking Kyrgios in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
They contested 41 points. The Pole was the one to win the set after conquering 23 more points than the Australian (32-9). Hurkacz was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (16-2). On the other side, Kyrgios conceded 16 points on serve (7-16).
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Upcoming matches
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