Miomir Kecmanovic upsets Alexander Zverev 6-74 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday. Kecmanovic will face off with Roberto Bautista Agut in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Zverev won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4th (1-3) and in the 10th (5-5) game. Alexander broke back in the 5th (2-3) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 4.
Zverev failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 15.
2nd set.
Miomir in this set didn’t concede much to the German and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking Zverev in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Zverev was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
3rd set.
Miomir won the set after he broke the German in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Zverev tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Anyhow, the Serbian stayed solid before winning the set 6-4.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Miomir scored 98 points vs. Zverev’s 91 points.
Miomir served pretty well to win 75% of the points (47/63) behind his first serve. However he won only 41% points (13/32) on his second serve. The Serbian was well focused in converting 75% of the break points that he conquered (6/8). On the other side, Zverev was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (3/6). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Kecmanovic and Zverev is 1-0 for Miomir.
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Next Match: Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Roberto Bautista Agut – H2H and stats
Kecmanovic will play Bautista Agut in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Miomir Kecmanovic and Roberto Bautista Agut since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
