Stefanos Tsitsipas beats Hubert Hurkacz 7-6(8) 6-3 in the quarter in Astana on Friday. Tsitsipas is going to play against Andrey Rublev in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 41 minutes.
Stefanos added to his prize money $ 49,830 after conquering this match. He has won already $ 101,890 so far in this competition. If he wins the next match, the Greek will add $ 89,290 to his earnings to get in total $ 191,180.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Hubert Hurkacz Astana Open – Astana
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:41
At the end of the match, Tsitsipas scored 84 points vs. Hurkacz’s 63.
Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas served pretty well to win 86% of the points (38/44) behind his first serve, and he won 78% points (14/18) on his second serve. Tsitsipas won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 11% (1/9) of the procured opportunities.
Hurkacz
On the other side, Hubert wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Tsitsipas and Hurkacz is 7-2 for Stefanos.
Draw and next match H2H: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Tsitsipas will play Rublev in the semifinal.
This will be the 11th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev play each other. The head to head is 5-5 for Tsitsipas and Rublev (see full H2H stats), 3-2 on I.hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Tsitsipas won 6-3 2-6 6-4 in the quarter in Madrid 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. Finally, the Greek won a thrilling breaker 10-8 after a huge fight with 18 points played.
The Greek was unable to break Hurkacz in the 9th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
The Greek won 4 minibreaks in the 12th (6-6), 16th (8-8), 17th (9-8) and 18th (10-8) point. On the other side, Hurkacz won 2 minibreaks in the 6th (4-2) and 15th (8-7) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 4-6, 5-6, 6-6, 6-7, 7-7, 7-8, 8-8, 9-8, 10-8
Tsitsipas was unable to convert any of the 8 conquered break points. He had 8 break points opportunities in the 7th (3-3 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 9th (4-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 30-40). Tsitsipas saved 6 set points when he was 3-5, 3-6, 4-6, 5-6, 6-7 and 7-8 down. On the other side, Stefanos didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 97 points. Tsitsipas was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Hurkacz (52-45). Stefanos lost 8 points on serve (31-8). In addition, on the other side, Hurkacz conceded 21 points on serve (37-21).
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Tsitsipas clinched in the 8th game (5-3) before ultimately winning the set (6-3).
The Greek was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 8th game (4-3 40-A). On the other side, Tsitsipas didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 50 points. Stefanos was the one to win the set after conquering 14 more points than the Pole (32-18). Tsitsipas was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (20-2). on the other side of the court, Hubert conceded 12 points on serve (16-12).
Tennis Scores in Astana
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (7-68 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Andrey RublevRublev – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (4-5) – H2H details and stats
