Alexander Bublik topples Bradley Klahn 7-65 6-3 in the 1st round in Washington on Monday. Bublik will face off with in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Finally, Alexander won the breaker at 5.
2nd set.
Alexander clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, The Kazakhstani broke back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.
At the end of the match, the Kazakhstani scored 76 points vs. Klahn’s 65 points.
Alexander served pretty well to win 81% of the points (30/37) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (20/38) on his second serve. Alexander was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured (2/4). On the other side, the American was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points because he converted only 17% of his break points (1/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Bublik and Klahn is 1-0 for Alexander.
