TENNIS SCORES. Stubborn Dmitry Popko survives Zopp in the 3rd round of the the L’Aquila Challenger

Dmitry Popko survives Jurgen Zopp 6-3 7-6⁵ in the 3^rd round in L’Aquila Challenger on Thursday after conquering a huge battle. Popko is going to play against Johannes Haerteis in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Kazakhstani conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, the Kazakhstani won the breaker at 5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Popko scored 65 points vs. the Estonian’s 52 points.

The Kazakhstani served extremely well to win 83% of the points (33/40) behind his first serve, and he won 71% points (15/21) on his second serve. Popko was absolutely great in converting all the break points (1/1). On the other side, Zopp wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Popko and Zopp is 1-0.

Next Match: Dmitry Popko vs. Johannes Haerteis – stats

Popko will face Haerteis in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Johannes Haerteis since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in L’Aquila Challenger

• Guilherme ClezarGuilherme – Facundo MenaFacundo (6-7³ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Jurgen ZoppJurgen (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Francisco CerundoloFrancisco – Thiago Seyboth WildThiago (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Carlos TabernerCarlos – Marc-Andrea HueslerMarc-Andrea (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Johannes HaerteisJohannes – Juan Pablo FicovichJuan (6-3 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Aleksandar VukicAleksandar – Pavel KotovPavel (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrej MartinAndrej – Peter TorebkoPeter (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrea CollariniAndrea – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFrederico (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andrej MartinAndrej – Guilherme ClezarGuilherme (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea CollariniAndrea – Francisco CerundoloFrancisco (0-0) – See H2H details
• Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Johannes HaerteisJohannes (0-0) – See H2H details
• Aleksandar VukicAleksandar – Carlos TabernerCarlos (0-0) – See H2H details