Ugo Humbert powers past Pavel Kotov 6-4 6-1 in the 2nd round in Doha on Wednesday after playing a marvellous match to come up against Gael Monfils in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Humbert added to his prize money $ 17,590 after winning this match. He has already won $ 42,190 after this win. If he wins the next match, the French player will add $ 30,620 to his earnings to get in total $ 72,810 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Humbert scored 72 points vs. Pavel’s 46.
Humbert
Ugo served very well to win 89% of the points (32/36) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 47% points (8/17) on his second serve. The French player won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points after he converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Kotov
On the other side, Kotov wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Humbert and Kotov is 2-0 for Ugo.
Draw and next match H2H: Ugo Humbert vs. Gael Monfils – stats
Humbert will take on Monfils in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Ugo Humbert and Gael Monfils clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Humbert (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the French player clinched in the 10th game (6-4) before eventually conquering the set (6-4).
Humbert failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 15.
Ugo converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 8th (4-3 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 0-40). On the other side, Pavel was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 9th game (4-4 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 77 points. Ugo conquered the set after winning 15 more points than the Russian (46-31). Ugo lost 9 points on serve (28-9). Regarding the other side of the net, Kotov conceded 18 points on serve (22-18).
Humbert had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Pavel Kotov in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Humbert extended his lead after breaking Pavel in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when Humbert won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
The French player converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 4th game (3-0 0-40). On the other side, the French player didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 41 points. Humbert conquered the set after winning 11 points more than Kotov (26-15). Humbert was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (12-4). on the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 14 points on serve (11-14).
Tennis Scores in Doha
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- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Pavel KotovKotov (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Andy MurrayMurray (7-66 6-73 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (2-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (4-6 7-5 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andrey RublevRublev – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Alexander BublikBublik (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Gael MonfilsMonfils (2-0) – H2H details and stats
