Vit Kopriva stuns Reilly Opelka 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Athens on Monday. Kopriva is going to play against Yannick Hanfmann or Ivan Ivanov in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes.
Kopriva added to his prize money € 5,235 after conquering this match. He has already won € 13,455 after this win. If he wins the next match, Kopriva will add € 9,715 to his earnings to get in total € 23,170 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Czech scored 64 points vs. Opelka’s 50.
Kopriva
Kopriva served exceptionally well to win 85% of the points (33/39) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (8/15) on his second serve. Vit won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points after he converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Opelka
On the other side, Reilly wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Kopriva and Opelka is 1-0 for Vit.
Draw and next match H2H: Vit Kopriva vs. Yannick Hanfmann or Ivan Ivanov – stats
Kopriva will square off with either Yannick Hanfmann or Ivan Ivanov in the 2nd round. The head to head is 0-0 vs. Yannick Hanfmann and 0-0 vs. Ivan Ivanov.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Czech clinched in the 5th game (3-2) prior to finally conquering the set (6-4).
Kopriva converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Vit didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 60 points. Vit was the winner of the set after clinching 4 points more than the American (32-28). The Czech was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (20-3). on the other side of the net, Reilly conceded 12 points on serve (25-12).
The Czech won the set after he broke Opelka in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
The Czech converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4
break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the American was unable to convert any of his 5 break points. He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).They contested 54 points. Kopriva was the one to win the set after conquering 10 points more than Reilly (32-22). Kopriva lost 10 points on serve (21-10). on the other side of the net, Opelka conceded 11 points on serve (12-11).
Tennis Scores in Athens
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (6-4 6-2)
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 6-3)
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (2-6 7-65 7-5)
- Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Laslo DjereDjere (1-6 7-66 6-2)
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (7-64 7-64)
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 2-6 7-66)
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (4-6 6-3 6-4)
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Adam WaltonWalton (7-67 6-76 7-5)
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis (7-64 6-3)
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