Aslan Karatsev tops Matteo Arnaldi 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 1st round in Zhuhai on Thursday. Karatsev will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Andy Murray in the 2nd round. The epic lasted 3 hours and 9 minutes.
The Russian added to his prize money $ 6,700 after winning this match. He has already won $ 17,230 after this win. If he wins the next match, Karatsev will add $ 12,445 to his earnings to get in total $ 29,675 in total.
Highlights Aslan Karatsev vs. Matteo Arnaldi Zhuhai Open – Zhuhai
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Karatsev scored 120 points vs. Arnaldi’s 101.
Karatsev
Karatsev served exceptionally well to win 83% of the points (50/60) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (20/35) on his second serve. The Russian struck 17 aces and he committed 9 double faults. The Russian won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 36% (4/11) of the procured opportunities.
Arnaldi
On the other side, Matteo was effective at converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Karatsev and Arnaldi is 1-0 for Aslan.
Draw and next match H2H: Aslan Karatsev vs. Andy Murray – stats
Karatsev will square off with Murray in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Aslan Karatsev and Andy Murray fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Karatsev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Arnaldi won the set after he broke Karatsev .
Matteo was perfect in converting all his break points in the 14th game (7-5 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Arnaldi didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 85 points. It’s worth to point out that, Matteo won this set even if he scored less points 11 than the Russian (37-48). Arnaldi lost 11 points on serve (25-11). In addition, on the other side, the Russian conceded 12 points on serve (37-12).
Karatsev won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (4-5) game, Aslan broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th (5-5) game to conquer the set 7-6.
Karatsev converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 8th (3-4 0-40), the 10th (4-5 15-40), the 12th (6-5 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 14th game (7-5 40-A). On the other side, Arnaldi was unerring in converting all his break points in the 7th (3-3 15-40) and the 9th game (4-4 15-40).
They contested 91 points. The contest during this set was so even that Karatsev won only 1 point more than the Italian (46-45). Karatsev lost 11 points on serve (14-11). on the other side of the court, Matteo conceded 32 points on serve (34-32).
Karatsev didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Matteo Arnaldi in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. That break resulted decisive for Aslan to win the set (6-2) as there were no other breaks.
Aslan converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 30-40) and the 7th game (5-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Aslan didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 47 points. Aslan won 7 points more than the Italian (27-20). Karatsev surrendered 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the court, Arnaldi conceded 11 points on serve (15-11).
Tennis Scores in Zhuhai
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-75 7-65 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (6-3 4-2 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-64 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Luke SavilleSaville (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Juncheng ShangShang (6-4 6-73 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Cristian GarinGarin – Yi ZhouZhou (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andy MurrayMurray – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Christian GarinGarin – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H details and stats