TENNIS SCORES. Determined Marin Cilic outlasts Klizan in the 1st round of the U.S. Open

Marin Cilic outlasts Martin Klizan 6-3 6-2 7-6⁶ in the 1^st round in New York on Tuesday after conquering a huge battle. Cilic will play Cedrik-Marcel Stebe in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Klizan didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Cilic in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Cilic refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Slovakian in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

Klizan was outplayed in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Cilic had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Klizan in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Cilic extended his lead after breaking Martin in the 3^rd (3-0) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

Klizan lost the 1^st game (1-0) when he had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.

A crucial moment of the match was when Marin won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

3^rd set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, Cilic won the breaker at 6.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Marin scored 100 points vs. Martin’s 84 points.

The Croatian served extremely well to win 85% of the points (46/54) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 47% points (18/38) on his second serve. Marin struck 17 aces and he committed 9 double faults. Cilic won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Martin was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Cilic and Klizan is 5-0 for Marin.

Highlights Marin Cilic vs. Martin Klizan U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Marin Cilic vs. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe – stats

Cilic will play Stebe in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Marin Cilic and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Cilic won 6-4 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in London back in 2012.

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