Aleksandar Vukic wins against Pavel Kotov 6-4 6-3 in the 3rd round in L’Aquila Challenger on Thursday. Vukic will face off with Carlos Taberner in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Australian won the set after he broke the Russian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game. The Russian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Notwithstanding, the Australian refused to give way before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
The Australian won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Vukic broke back 3 times in the 5th (2-3), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game before winning the set 6-3.
Kotov had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Aleksandar scored 69 points vs. Kotov’s 59 points.
Vukic won this match even if he was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points since he converted only 31% (5/16). On the other side, Kotov wasn’t that great in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Vukic and Kotov is 1-0.
Next Match: Aleksandar Vukic vs. Carlos Taberner – stats
Vukic will face Taberner in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Vukic and Carlos Taberner 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
- Andrea CollariniAndrea – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFrederico (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinAndrej – Peter TorebkoPeter (6-2 6-4) – 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