Alejandro Davidovich Fokina defeats Karen Khachanov 6-3 1-6 6-4 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells on Sunday. Davidovich Fokina will clash against Cristian Garin in the 4th round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 17 minutes. This will be his best result in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do was reach the 2nd round in 2021 and 2022. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
The Spaniard added to his prize money $ 41,185 after winning this match. He has already won $ 96,955 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Spaniard will add $ 87,510 to his earnings to get in total $ 184,465 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:17
Alejandro won this match even if he won less points than Karen (87 vs. 89).
Davidovich Fokina
The Spaniard won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points as he converted only 36% (4/11) of the procured opportunities.
Khachanov
On the other side, Khachanov was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 40% – 4/10). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Davidovich Fokina and Khachanov is 2-0 for Alejandro.
Draw and next match H2H: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Cristian Garin – stats
Davidovich Fokina will fight against Garin in the 4th round.
This will be the 3rd time that Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Cristian Garin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Davidovich Fokina and Garin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Davidovich Fokina had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Karen Khachanov in the 1st game (1-0). However, Alejandro refused to bow to come back to break Karen in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
There was an important spell in this set when Davidovich Fokina won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the game count from 0-2 to 5-2.
Davidovich Fokina converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 40-A and 40-A) and the 6th game (3-2 15-40). Also, on the other side, Khachanov converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40 and 15-40).
They played 70 points. The Spaniard was the one to win the set after conquering 4 more points than Karen (37-33). Alejandro conceded 14 points on serve (20-14). on the other side of the net, Khachanov conceded 17 points on serve (19-17).
The Russian was too strong to drop just 1 game before breaking the Spaniard 2 times and win the set 6-1.
The Spaniard couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 1-1 to 6-1.
Karen was unerring in converting all his break points in the 3rd (2-1 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Khachanov didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 40 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 6 more points than Alejandro (23-17). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (12-4). On the other side, Davidovich Fokina conceded 11 points on serve (13-11).
Davidovich Fokina won the set after he broke the Russian in the 6th (4-2) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Khachanov tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Nonetheless, Davidovich Fokina didn’t blink to win the set 6-4.
Alejandro converted 25% of his break points (2/8). He had 8 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (3-2 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). Also, on the other side, Khachanov converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had his opportunities in the 7th (2-4 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (3-5 15-40).
They played 68 points. This set was so close that, Davidovich Fokina won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. The Spaniard surrendered 11 points on serve (16-11). In addition, on the other side, the Russian conceded 18 points on serve (23-18).
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