Jiri Lehecka topples Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2 6-4 in the 4th round in Indian Wells on Tuesday. Lehecka will try to keep the momentum against Jannik Sinner in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this competition. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Jiri added to his prize money $ 84,000 after winning this match. He has already won $ 185,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Jiri will add $ 140,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 325,000 in total.
Highlights Jiri Lehecka vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:17
At the end of the match, Lehecka scored 67 points vs. Stefanos’s 46.
Lehecka
The Czech served very well to win 84% of the points (26/31) behind his first serve, and he won 68% points (13/19) on his second serve. The Czech won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points since he converted only 30% (3/10) of the procured opportunities.
Tsitsipas
On the other side, Stefanos wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Lehecka and Tsitsipas is 1-2 for Stefanos.
Draw and next match H2H: Jiri Lehecka vs. Jannik Sinner – stats
Lehecka will come up against Sinner in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Jiri Lehecka and Jannik Sinner clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Lehecka (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Lehecka won in the quarter in Indian wells back in January 1970.
Live score progression and stats
Lehecka in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Stefanos and without many problems he won 6-2 after breaking Stefanos in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A crucial moment of this set was when Lehecka won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the game count from 0-1 to 5-1.
Lehecka converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 4th game (3-1 30-40). On the other side, Lehecka didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 52 points. Lehecka won 8 more points than the Greek (30-22). Jiri was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). on the other side of the net, the Greek conceded 14 points on serve (18-14).
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Jiri clinched in the 3rd game (2-1) before eventually conquering the set (6-4).
The Czech converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Stefanos was unable to convert any of his 4 break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 30-40) and the 8th game (3-4 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 61 points. The Czech was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than the Greek (37-24). The Czech lost 7 points on serve (23-7). In addition, on the other side, Stefanos conceded 14 points on serve (17-14).
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