Karen Khachanov mullers Grigor Dimitrov 6-2 6-3 in the quarter in Paris on Friday after playing a fantastic match to fight against Ugo Humbert in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 8 minutes. Khachanov won this tournament once in 2018. Here you can see his history at this event.
Khachanov added to his prize money € 124,740 after winning this match. He has already won € 274,425 up to now in this tournament. If he wins the next match, Khachanov will add € 227,455 to his earnings to get in total € 501,880.
Highlights Karen Khachanov vs. Grigor Dimitrov Rolex Paris Masters – Paris
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:08
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 57 points vs. the Bulgarian’s 38.
Khachanov
Karen served extremely well to win 79% of the points (27/34) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (7/11) on his second serve. The Russian didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that he procured (4/6).
Dimitrov
On the other side, the Bulgarian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Khachanov and Dimitrov is 1-4 for Grigor.
Draw and next match H2H: Karen Khachanov vs. Ugo Humbert – stats
Khachanov will square off with Humbert in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Karen Khachanov and Ugo Humbert square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
Khachanov had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Grigor Dimitrov in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Khachanov improved his lead after breaking Grigor in the 3rd (3-0) game before winning the set (6-2).
A defining moment of this set was when Khachanov won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to convert the game count from 0-0 to 4-0.
Khachanov was spot on in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 3rd game (2-0 30-40). On the other side, Karen didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. Karen was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Grigor (28-20). Karen was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). On the losing side, the Bulgarian conceded 12 points on serve (16-12).
Khachanov won the set after he broke Dimitrov in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
The Bulgarian was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-3 to 6-3.
Karen converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 7th (3-3 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Karen didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 47 points. Karen won 11 more points than Dimitrov (29-18). Khachanov conceded 7 points on serve (18-7). In addition, on the other side, Dimitrov conceded 11 points on serve (11-11).
Tennis Scores in Paris
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-2 7-64)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (7-5 6-4)
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-2 6-3)
- Holger RuneRune – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-4 4-6 7-5)
Upcoming matches
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Ugo HumbertHumbert (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Alexander ZverevZverev (1-2) – H2H details and stats
