Andrey Rublev outlasts Alex De Minaur 6-1 3-6 7-6(8) in the quarter in Doha on Thursday after conquering a huge battle. Rublev will fight against Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semifinal. The battle lasted 2 hours and 39 minutes. Rublev won this tournament once in 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
Rublev added to his prize money $ 72,390 after winning this match. He has already won $ 148,005 until now in this event. If he wins the next match, Rublev will add $ 129,710 to his earnings to get in total $ 277,715.
Highlights Andrey Rublev vs. Alex De Minaur Qatar ExxonMobil Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 108 points vs. De Minaur’s 99.
Rublev
Andrey won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 27% (3/11) of the procured opportunities.
De Minaur
On the other side, Alex was effective at converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Rublev and De Minaur is 4-4.
Draw and next match H2H: Andrey Rublev vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime – stats
Rublev will compete against Auger-Aliassime in the semifinal.
This will be the 7th time that Andrey Rublev and Felix Auger-Aliassime play each other. The head to head is 5-1 for Rublev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
The Russian was too strong to concede only 1 game before breaking the Australian 2 times and win the set 6-1.
The Australian was outplayed in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 1-1 to 6-1.
The Russian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 6th game (4-1 30-40). On the other side, Rublev didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 53 points. Rublev was the one to win the set after conquering 9 points more than Alex (31-22). Andrey dropped 6 points on serve (16-6). Regarding the other side of the net, De Minaur conceded 15 points on serve (16-15).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Australian clinched in the 4th game (3-1) just before ultimately winning the set (6-3).
De Minaur was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 6th (4-1 30-40) and the 10th game (6-2 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Rublev was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 7th game (2-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 58 points. The set was a huge battle since finally De Minaur won just 2 more points than Andrey (30-28
). The Australian conceded 8 points on serve (18-8). on the other side of the court, the Russian conceded 12 points on serve (20-12).The Russian won the set after he broke the Australian in the 4th (3-1) game. Alex tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Nonetheless, Rublev didn’t make any concession anymore to ultimately clinch the set at the following breaker at 8.
Tiebreak
Andrey won 5 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 3rd (2-1), 6th (4-2), 15th (8-7) and 18th (10-8) point. On the other side, De Minaur won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (2-2), 9th (4-5) and 16th (8-8) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 8-8, 9-8, 10-8
The Russian converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 8th (5-2 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). Andrey saved 1 set point when he was trailing 5-6. On the other side, Alex was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 9th game (3-5 40-A).
They played 96 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Rublev won just 2 points more than the Australian (49-47). The Russian conceded 15 points on serve (25-15). On the other side, De Minaur conceded 24 points on serve (32-24).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-1 3-6 7-68)
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-3 ret.)
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz (6-3 3-6 6-4)
Upcoming matches
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