Borna Coric surprises Felix Auger Aliassime 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Cincinnati on Friday. Coric will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Cameron Norrie in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. This will be his best result in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the quarter in 2016. Here you can see his history at this event.
Coric added to his prize money $ 131,660 after winning this match. He has won already $ 289,655 until now in this tournament. If he wins the next match, Coric will add $ 240,055 to his earnings to get in total $ 529,710.
Highlights Borna Coric vs. Felix Auger Aliassime Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 68 points vs. the Canadian’s 56.
Coric
Borna served very well to win 97% of the points (31/32) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (9/18) on his second serve. The Croatian won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points after he converted only 22% (2/9) of the procured opportunities.
Auger-Aliassime
On the other side, Auger-Aliassime wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Coric and Auger-Aliassime is 2-1 for Borna.
Draw and next match H2H: Borna Coric vs. Cameron Norrie – stats
Coric will take on Norrie in the semifinal.
This will be the 4th time that Borna Coric and Cameron Norrie clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Coric (see full H2H stats), but Norrie leads 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Coric conquered in the 3rd
game (2-1) before ultimately winning the set (6-4).Coric missed the opportunity to break Auger-Aliassime in the 5th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Borna converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 5th game (3-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Croatian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 58 points. Borna was the winner of the set after clinching 4 more points than Auger-Aliassime (31-27). Coric dropped 6 points on serve (20-6). On the losing side, Felix conceded 11 points on serve (21-11).
Similarly to the 1st set, there was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Coric grabbed in the 7th game (4-3) prior to eventually winning the set (6-4).
Coric converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 7th game (3-3 30-40). On the other side, Borna didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 66 points. The Croatian won 8 points more than Felix (37-29). Coric was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (20-4). In addition, on the other side, Felix conceded 17 points on serve (25-17).
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
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- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – John IsnerIsner (7-65 5-7 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Borna CoricCoric – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (7-61 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (7-2) – H2H details and stats
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Borna CoricCoric (1-1) – H2H details and stats