Frances Tiafoe beats Aslan Karatsev 6-4 3-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in Atlanta on Thursday. Tiafoe will play Yoshihito Nishioka in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 5 minutes. His best result in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Tiafoe added to his prize money $ 9,580 after winning this match. He has already won $ 22,850 after this win. If he wins the next match, the American will add $ 16,585 to his earnings to get in total $ 39,435 in total.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs. Aslan Karatsev Atlanta Open – Atlanta
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 89 points vs. Aslan’s 86.
Tiafoe
Tiafoe served extremely well to win 84% of the points (46/55) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 41% points (12/29) on his second serve. Frances blasted 18 aces and he committed 3 double faults. The American won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points as he converted only 33% (2/6) of the procured opportunities.
Karatsev
On the other side, Aslan was struggling when converting his break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tiafoe and Karatsev is 3-1 for Frances.
Draw and next match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Yoshihito Nishioka – stats
Tiafoe will take on Nishioka in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Frances Tiafoe and Yoshihito Nishioka fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Nishioka won 6-3 6-2 in the final in Winnetka Challenger back in 2016.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Frances conquered in the 5th game (3-2) just before finally winning the set (6-4).
Tiafoe converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Karatsev wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 2nd game (1-1 40-A).
They played 75 points. The contest during this set was so even that Frances won barely 1 point more than the Russian (38-37
). The American surrendered 12 points on serve (21-12). On the other side, Karatsev conceded 17 points on serve (25-17).Tiafoe conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Aslan Karatsev in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Aslan to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.
The Russian was flawless in converting all his break points in the 1st
(0-0 15-40) and the 3rd game (3-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the American wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 7th game (2-4 30-40).They played 52 points. Aslan was the one to win the set after conquering 4 points more than Frances (28-24). Karatsev lost 6 points on serve (17-6). On the losing side, the American conceded 11 points on serve (18-11).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Frances grabbed in the 4th game (3-1) before eventually conquering the set (6-3).
Tiafoe converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th game (2-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Tiafoe didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 46 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Frances won just 2 more points than Aslan (24-22). The American was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). On the losing side, Aslan conceded 8 points on serve (18-8).
Tennis Scores in Atlanta
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-4 3-6 6-3)
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (7-5 7-5)
- Juncheng ShangShang – Ben SheltonShelton (7-66 6-4)
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-3 6-4)
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Harold MayotMayot (6-2 7-5)
- Max PurcellPurcell – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-3)
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Adam WaltonWalton (7-64 6-3)
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-66 4-6 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-3) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – (0-0) – H2H details and stats