Tallon Griekspoor stuns Aslan Karatsev 7-6(4) 6-1 in the semifinal in Pune on Friday. Griekspoor will engage against Benjamin Bonzi in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 21 minutes.
Tallon added to his prize money $ 23,500 after winning this match. He has won already $ 57,025 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tallon will add $ 40,735 to his earnings to get in total $ 97,760 in total.
Highlights Tallon Griekspoor vs. Aslan Karatsev Tata Open Maharashtra – Pune
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:21
At the end of the match, the Dutch scored 68 points vs. Karatsev’s 44.
Griekspoor
Griekspoor served pretty well to win 89% of the points (32/36) behind his first serve, and he won 76% points (13/17) on his second serve. The Dutch struck 11 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Dutch won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points after he converted only 40% (2/5) of the procured opportunities.
Karatsev
On the other side, Karatsev wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Griekspoor and Karatsev is 3-2 for Tallon.
Draw and next match H2H: Tallon Griekspoor vs. Benjamin Bonzi – stats
Griekspoor will compete against Bonzi in the final.
This will be the 2nd time that Tallon Griekspoor and Benjamin Bonzi clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bonzi (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bonzi won 7-5 4-6 7-61 in the 1st round in Blois Challenger back in 2017.
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 Dutch won the tiebreak at 7-4.
Tiebreak
Tallon won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (3-2) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Aslan won a minibreak in the 2nd (1-1) point.
The Dutch won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
The Dutch wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 6th game (3-3 30-40). On the other side, Tallon didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 74 points. Griekspoor was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than the Russian (41-33). Griekspoor dropped 5 points on serve (29-5). On the losing side, the Russian conceded 12 points on serve (28-12).
Griekspoor commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Aslan Karatsev in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. The Dutch improved his lead after breaking Aslan in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Tallon won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
The Dutch converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 4th game (3-0 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Dutch didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 37 points. The Dutch conquered the set after winning 17 points more than Karatsev (27-10). Griekspoor was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). On the losing side, Aslan conceded 11 points on serve (7-11).
Tennis Scores in Pune
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (7-64 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (7-65 6-75 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H details and stats
