Kimmer Coppejans surprises Aleksandar Kovacevic 7-6(4) 6-1 in the 1st round in Zhuhai on Thursday. Coppejans will face off with Mackenzie Mcdonald in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes.
Kimmer added to his prize money $ 6,700 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 17,230 after this win. If he wins the next match, Kimmer will add $ 12,445 to his earnings to get in total $ 29,675 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Coppejans scored 59 points vs. Kovacevic’s 43.
Coppejans
Kimmer served extremely well to win 86% of the points (30/35) behind his first serve, and he won 79% points (15/19) on his second serve. Kimmer struck 12 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Kimmer was fantastic in converting all the break points (2/2).
Kovacevic
On the other side, the American 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 Coppejans and Kovacevic is 2-0 for Kimmer.
Draw and next match H2H: Kimmer Coppejans vs. Mackenzie Mcdonald – stats
Coppejans will face Mcdonald in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Kimmer Coppejans and Mackenzie Mcdonald clash against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Mcdonald (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Mcdonald won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in San Francisco Challenger back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Coppejans won the set after he broke Aleksandar .
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. In addition on the other side, Coppejans didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 71 points. Kimmer was the winner of the set after clinching 5 points more than Aleksandar (38-33). Coppejans lost 9 points on serve (35-9). In addition, on the other side, Kovacevic conceded 3 points on serve (24-3).
Coppejans had a racing start in this set after breaking Aleksandar Kovacevic in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Coppejans managed to boost his lead after breaking the American in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
There was a pivotal moment in this set when Kimmer won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the score from 0-0 to 5-0.
Kimmer was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 15-40) and the 4th game (3-0 30-40). On the other side, the Belgian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 31 points. Kimmer was the winner of the set after clinching 11 more points than the American (21-10). Kimmer was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (12-3). On the losing side, Aleksandar conceded 9 points on serve (7-9).
Tennis Scores in Zhuhai
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-64 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Cristian GarinGarin – Yi ZhouZhou (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (6-3 4-2 ret.) – 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
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Juncheng ShangShang (6-4 6-73 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-75 7-65 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-3) – 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