Matteo Arnaldi hustles Karen Khachanov 7-5 7-5 in the 2nd round in Montreal on Thursday. Arnaldi will fight against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 43 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this event. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
Arnaldi added to his prize money $ 42,405 after winning this match. He has already won $ 91,435 after this win. If he wins the next match, Matteo will add $ 79,505 to his earnings to get in total $ 170,940 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 78 points vs. Khachanov’s 69.
Arnaldi
Matteo served pretty well to win 80% of the points (37/46) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 32% points (7/22) on his second serve. Arnaldi was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (4/8).
Khachanov
On the other side, the Russian was battling in converting his break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Arnaldi and Khachanov is 1-0 for Matteo.
Draw and next match H2H: Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina – stats
Arnaldi will take on Davidovich Fokina in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Matteo Arnaldi and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
The Italian conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 5th (2-3) game, The Italian broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 12th game to conquer the set 7-5.
The Italian failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 0.
The Italian converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (2-3 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). In addition on the other side, the Russian converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had his opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40) and the 7th game (3-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 83 points. Arnaldi was the winner of the set after clinching 7 points more than Karen (45-38). The Italian surrendered 14 points on serve (28-14). On the other side, Khachanov conceded 17 points on serve (24-17).
Matteo won the set after he broke Karen in the 4th (3-1) and in the 12th (7-5) game. Karen tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. However, Matteo didn’t blink to conquer the set 7-5.
Matteo was spot on in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 15-40) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A). On the other side, the Russian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 5th game (1-3 0-40).
They contested 64 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Matteo won just 2 more points than Khachanov (33-31). Arnaldi lost 10 points on serve (16-10). Regarding the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 17 points on serve (21-17).
Tennis Scores in Montreal
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-4 1-6 6-2)
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Ben SheltonShelton (6-4 7-64)
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Borna CoricCoric (6-2 6-4)
- Holger RuneRune – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-1 6-3)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tommy PaulPaul (6-2 6-75 6-1)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (7-63 6-2)
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-1 6-0)
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-5 7-5)
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 6-2)
- Casper RuudRuud – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-2 6-75 6-3)
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-4 6-4)
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Ugo HumbertHumbert (3-6 7-62 7-64)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-1 6-1)
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