TENNIS SCORES. Tenacious Aljaz Bedene outlasts Kovalik in the 1st round in New York

Aljaz Bedene survives Jozef Kovalik 6-3 6-4 7-5 in the 1^st round in New York on Tuesday after winning a huge battle. Bedene is going to play against Benoit Paire in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Bedene conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Kovalik in the 1^st game (1-0). The Slovenian managed to boost his lead after breaking Jozef in the 9^th (6-3) game before conquering the set.

2^nd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Bedene conquered in the 10^th game (6-4).

3^rd set.

Bedene had a racing start in this set after breaking Kovalik in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. However, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Aljaz to win the set as Kovalik managed to break back in the 5^th (2-3) and in the 9^th (4-5) game. Bedene kept his focus to break Jozef in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 12^th (7-5) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Slovenian scored 111 points vs. the Slovakian’s 87 points.

Aljaz served pretty well to win 80% of the points (41/51) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (20/40) on his second serve. The Slovenian blasted 19 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Aljaz was pretty focused in converting 55% of the break points that he procured (6/11). On the other side, Jozef was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points since he converted only 33% of his break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Bedene and Kovalik is 1-0 for Aljaz.

Highlights Aljaz Bedene vs. Jozef Kovalik U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Aljaz Bedene vs. Benoit Paire – stats

Bedene will play Paire in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 6^th time that Aljaz Bedene and Benoit Paire fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Paire (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Paire won 3-6 6-4 7-5 in the 1^st round in Marrakech back in April 2019.

Tennis Scores at the Us Open

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• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Kyle EdmundEdmund (3-6 7-6¹ 7-5 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-2 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-6 7-5 7-5 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Hyeon ChungChung – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (3-6 6-4 6-7⁵ 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-4 6-3 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-3 7-6⁸ 6-7⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Aljaz BedeneBedene – Jozef KovalikKovalik (6-3 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Antoine HoangHoang – Leonardo MayerMayer (3-6 6-2 6-7⁶ 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Joao SousaSousa (6-3 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• John IsnerIsner – Guillermo Garcia-LopezGarcia-Lopez (6-3 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-4 3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Marin CilicCilic – Martin KlizanKlizan (6-3 6-2 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (7-6³ 7-6⁶ 2-6 3-6 7-6²) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-5 7-6⁵ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-1 6-3 3-6 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
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• Gilles SimonSimon – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (5-7 7-5 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
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• Aljaz BedeneBedene – Benoit PairePaire (1-4) – See H2H details
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• Denis KudlaKudla – Dusan LajovicLajovic (1-1) – See H2H details
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Marin CilicCilic (0-1) – See H2H details
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – See H2H details
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Hugo DellienDellien – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-0) – See H2H details
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – See H2H details
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Rafael NadalNadal (0-1) – See H2H details
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (3-1) – See H2H details
• Alexander BublikBublik – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – See H2H details
• Christian GarinGarin – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – See H2H details
• Borna CoricCoric – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – See H2H details
• Antoine HoangHoang – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Gilles SimonSimon (0-0) – See H2H details
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – See H2H details