Aljaz Bedene bests Viktor Durasovic 7-5 6-3 in the final in Portoroz Challenger on Sunday.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Bedene won the set after he broke the Norwegian 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 9th (5-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Durasovic tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) and in the 10th (5-5) game. Nonetheless, Bedene didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 7-5.
Aljaz failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 15.
2nd set.
Durasovic didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Bedene in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, the Slovenian was not done to come back to break Durasovic 3 times in the 5th (2-3), in the 7th (4-3) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Viktor was powerless in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-3 to 6-3).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Slovenian scored 71 points vs. Durasovic’s 58 points.
Bedene served very well to win 80% of the points (20/25) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 42% points (13/31) on his second serve. Bedene was effective in converting 55% of the break points that he procured (6/11). On the other side, Durasovic was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 43% of his break points (3/7). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Bedene and Durasovic is 1-0.
Tennis Scores in Portoroz Challenger
- Aljaz BedeneAljaz – Viktor DurasovicViktor (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
