Karen Khachanov hustles Nick Kyrgios 6-73 7-64 6-2 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday. Khachanov will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Lucas Pouille in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Australian conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, Kyrgios broke back in the 9th (4-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 3.
2nd set.
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Eventually, the Russian won the breaker at 4.
3rd set.
Karen in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Kyrgios and consequentely he won 6-2 after breaking Kyrgios in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Nick had no answers in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).
Statistics
After this match, the head to head between Khachanov and Kyrgios is 1-0 for Karen.
Next Match: Karen Khachanov vs. Lucas Pouille – H2H and stats
Khachanov will face Pouille in the 3rd round.
This will be the 4th time that Karen Khachanov and Lucas Pouille fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), but Pouille has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Khachanov won 6-3 7-5 6-3 in the 3rd round in Roland Garros back in 2018.
