Stefanos Tsitsipas victorious over Karen Khachanov 7-6(4) 2-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in Dubai on Wednesday. Tsitsipas will play Matteo Berrettini in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 28 minutes. His best achievement in this competition was reaching the final in 2019 and 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
Tsitsipas added to his prize money $ 41,350 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 88,700 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tsitsipas will add $ 84,920 to his earnings to get in total $ 173,620 in total.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Karen Khachanov Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Stefanos won this match even if he conquered less points than Khachanov (103 vs. 104).
Tsitsipas
Stefanos served pretty well to win 80% of the points (49/61) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 45% points (17/38) on his second serve. Tsitsipas won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 22% (2/9) of the procured opportunities.
Khachanov
On the other side, Khachanov had some problems converting his break points (only 33% – 3/9). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tsitsipas and Khachanov is 9-1 for Stefanos.
Draw and next match H2H: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Matteo Berrettini – stats
Tsitsipas will come up against Berrettini in the quarter.
This will be the 6th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Matteo Berrettini play each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tsitsipas won 6-76 7-64 7-62 in the qualifications in US Open back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
The Greek conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 8th (3-5) game, Tsitsipas broke back in the 9th (4-5) game to win the set 7-6.
They played 95 points. It’s worth to point out that, Stefanos won this set even if he scored less points 1 than Karen (47-48). Tsitsipas conceded 25 points on serve (36-25). On the other side, the Russian conceded 11 points on serve (23-11).
Tsitsipas had a strong start of this set after breaking Karen Khachanov in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. That break turned to be decisive for Karen to win the set (6-2) since there were no other breaks anymore.
The Russian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (2-0 15-40). On the other side, Tsitsipas was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 6th
(1-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (2-5 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).They contested 59 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Karen won just 3 more points than Stefanos (31-28). The Russian lost 15 points on serve (25-15). on the other side of the court, the Greek conceded 6 points on serve (13-6).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Tsitsipas conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Stefanos was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 10th game (5-4 40-A). On the other side, Khachanov wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 5th game (2-2 30-40).
They contested 53 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Stefanos won just 3 points more than Karen (28-25). The Greek dropped 6 points on serve (18-6). on the other side of the court, Khachanov conceded 10 points on serve (19-10).
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Ugo HumbertHumbert (4-6 6-3 6-2)
- Luca NardiNardi – Zizou BergsBergs (6-4 7-63)
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-62 6-2)
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (6-4 6-4)
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-64 2-6 6-4)
- Quentin HalysHalys – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-65 6-4)
- Marin CilicCilic – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (5-7 6-3 6-4)
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Nuno BorgesBorges (4-6 6-3 7-5)
Upcoming matches
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (4-1) – H2H details and stats
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Marin CilicCilic (1-3) – H2H details and stats