Frances Tiafoe crushes Filip Krajinovic 6-2 ret. in the 3rd round in Salem Open on Thursday after playing a good match to clash against Hubert Hurkacz in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Francis in this set played at a much higher level than Krajinovic and therefore he won 6-2 after breaking the Serbian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Krajinovic had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Finally, Filip won the tiebreak at .
3rd set.
The Serbian won the set after he broke Francis . That break was sufficient for Krajinovic to conquer the set as he didn’t concede his serve during the rest of the set.
Statistics
After this contest, the head to head between Tiafoe and Krajinovic is 2-2.
Next Match: Frances Tiafoe vs. Hubert Hurkacz – stats
Tiafoe will come up against Hurkacz in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Frances Tiafoe and Hubert Hurkacz clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tiafoe won 4-1 4-2 2-4 4-310 in the R in Milan back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo (7-67 6-0) – See score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHubert – Feliciano LopezFeliciano (6-3 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonSteve – Casper RuudCasper (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- John MillmanJohn – Robin HaaseRobin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Benoit PaireBenoit – Ugo HumbertUgo (3-6 7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovDenis – Miomir KecmanovicMiomir (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeFrances – Filip KrajinovicFilip (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Sam QuerreySam – Andrey RublevAndrey (1-0) – See H2H details
- John MillmanJohn – Steve JohnsonSteve (1-3) – See H2H details
- Benoit PaireBenoit – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (7-3) – See H2H details
- Frances TiafoeFrances – Hubert HurkaczHubert (2-0) – See H2H details