Marin Cilic gets by Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Stockholm on Tuesday. Cilic is going to play against Casper Ruud in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 33 minutes.
Highlights Marin Cilic vs. Nicolai Budkov Kjaer BNP Paribas Nordic Open – Stockholm
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Marin scored 70 points vs. Budkov Kjaer’s 60.
Cilic
Cilic served very well to win 85% of the points (29/34) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (16/25) on his second serve. Cilic fired 12 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Croatian won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points after he converted only 29% (2/7) of the procured opportunities.
Budkov Kjaer
On the other side, the Norwegian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Cilic and Budkov Kjaer is 1-0 for Marin.
Draw and next match H2H: Marin Cilic vs. Casper Ruud – stats
Cilic will compete against Ruud in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Marin Cilic and Casper Ruud clash against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Croatian snatched in the 12th game (7-5) before eventually winning the set (7-5).
The Croatian failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 0.
Cilic was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 12th game (6-5 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Marin didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 80 points. The Croatian won 6 points more than Nicolai (43-37). Marin lost 10 points on serve (29-10). In addition, on the other side, Budkov Kjaer conceded 14 points on serve (27-14).
Similarly to the 1st set, there was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Marin clinched in the 6th
game (4-2) just before eventually winning the set (6-3).Marin converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 6th game (3-2 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Cilic didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 50 points. Marin won 4 more points than Budkov Kjaer (27-23). Cilic was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). On the losing side, Nicolai conceded 11 points on serve (19-11).
Tennis Scores in Stockholm
- Elias YmerYmer – Mikael YmerYmer (6-2 7-64)
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-2 6-2)
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-4 6-2)
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Mark LajalLajal (7-65 6-75 6-3)
- Marin CilicCilic – Nicolai Budkov KjaerBudkov Kjaer (7-5 6-3)
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-74 6-1 6-3)
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-3 6-76 7-65)
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 6-1)
- Leo BorgBorg – Sebastian OfnerOfner (6-3 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Marin CilicCilic – Casper RuudRuud (0-3) – H2H details and stats
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-3) – H2H details and stats
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H details and stats