Pavel Kotov survives Andrea Vavassori 6-2 7-68 in the 2nd round in L’Aquila Challenger on Wednesday after conquering a huge battle. Kotov is going to play against Aleksandar Vukic in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Kotov came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Vavassori in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Russian to win the set as Vavassori found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. The Russian kept his focus to break the Italian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
Andrea lost the 5th game (4-1) when he was serving and leading 40-0.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Russian won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
2nd set.
Kotov had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Vavassori in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Kotov to win the set as Vavassori managed to break back in the 4th (2-2) game. Pavel kept his focus before winning the set at the tiebreak at 8.
Vavassori lost the 1st game (1-0) when he was 40-0 up.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 82 points vs. Vavassori’s 73 points.
The Russian didn’t lose the concentration in converting 57% of the break points that he conquered (4/7). On the other side, Andrea was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 40% of his break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Kotov and Vavassori is 1-0.
Next Match: Pavel Kotov vs. Aleksandar Vukic – stats
Kotov will face Vukic in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Pavel Kotov and Aleksandar Vukic since this will be the first time that they will face off at pro level.
Tennis Scores in L’Aquila Challenger
- Marc-Andrea HueslerMarc-Andrea – Teimuraz GabashviliTeimuraz (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovPavel – Andrea VavassoriAndrea (6-2 7-68) – See score progression
- Thiago Seyboth WildThiago – Thomaz BellucciThomaz (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinAndrej – Gianluigi QuinziGianluigi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Johannes HaerteisJohannes – Nino SerdarusicNino (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerCarlos – Alejandro TabiloAlejandro (6-4 6-77 6-0) – See score progression
- Andrea CollariniAndrea – Raul BrancaccioRaul (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Guilherme ClezarGuilherme – Aslan KaratsevAslan (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Facundo MenaFacundo – Scott GriekspoorScott (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFrederico – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaCarlos (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichJuan – Gian Marco MoroniGian (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Peter TorebkoPeter – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraMarcelo (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Khumoun SultanovKhumoun (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicAleksandar – Gonzalo EscobarGonzalo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jurgen ZoppJurgen – Sasi Kumar MukundSasi (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloFrancisco – Gianluca Di NicolaGianluca (5-7 7-64 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andrej MartinAndrej – Peter TorebkoPeter (0-0) – See H2H details
- Facundo MenaFacundo – Guilherme ClezarGuilherme (0-0) – See H2H details
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFrederico – Andrea CollariniAndrea (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Jurgen ZoppJurgen (0-0) – See H2H details
- Juan Pablo FicovichJuan – Johannes HaerteisJohannes (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marc-Andrea HueslerMarc-Andrea – Carlos TabernerCarlos (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pavel KotovPavel – Aleksandar VukicAleksandar (0-0) – See H2H details
- Francisco CerundoloFrancisco – Thiago Seyboth WildThiago (0-0) – See H2H details
