Frances Tiafoe aces Aleksandar Kovacevic 7-6(3) 4-6 6-3 in the 3rd round in Washington on Thursday in what was an all-American clash. Tiafoe will square off with Andrey Rublev in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 29 minutes. This run will match his most significant achievement in this competition. Here you can see his history at this event.
Frances added to his prize money $ 25,185 after winning this match. He has already won $ 53,240 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tiafoe will add $ 48,735 to his earnings to get in total $ 101,975 in total.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic Citi Open – Washington
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:29
At the end of the match, Frances scored 107 points vs. Kovacevic’s 92.
Tiafoe
Frances served extremely well to win 83% of the points (45/54) behind his first serve, and he won 55% points (22/40) on his second serve. Tiafoe fired 16 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Tiafoe won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 18% (2/11) of the procured opportunities.
Kovacevic
On the other side, Kovacevic was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tiafoe and Kovacevic is 1-0 for Frances.
Draw and next match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Tiafoe will square off with Rublev in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Frances Tiafoe and Andrey Rublev fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Tiafoe clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 8th (3-5) game, Frances broke back in the 9th (4-5) game to conquer the set 7-6.
Tiafoe converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (3-5 0-40). Also, on the other side, Aleksandar converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had his opportunities in the 8th (4-3 15-40) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 87 points. Frances was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than Kovacevic (50-37). Frances dropped 14 points on serve (34-14). on the other side of the net, Aleksandar conceded 16 points on serve (23-16).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Kovacevic grabbed in the 7th game (4-3) before eventually winning the set (6-4).
Kovacevic was flawless in converting all his break points in the 6th game (3-3 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Frances was on the money in converting all his break points in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 66 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Kovacevic won just 2 more points than Frances (34-32). Kovacevic surrendered 14 points on serve (25-14). on the other side of the court, Tiafoe conceded 9 points on serve (18-9).
Similarly to the 2nd set, there was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Tiafoe grabbed in the 8th game (5-3) just before finally conquering the set (6-3).
Tiafoe converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 8th game (4-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Frances didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 46 points. Frances was the winner of the set after clinching 4 points more than Aleksandar (25-21). Tiafoe conceded 6 points on serve (18-6). on the other side of the court, Aleksandar conceded 7 points on serve (15-7).
Tennis Scores in Washington
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (4-6 6-4 6-2)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (6-3 6-3)
- Ben SheltonShelton – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (7-65 7-64)
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-63 4-6 6-3)
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (7-5 6-4)
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (1-6 7-60 7-67)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (7-64 6-4)
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (6-71 7-5 3-2 ret.)
Upcoming matches
- Andrey RublevRublev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
