TENNIS SCORES. Dominik Koepfer upsets Basilashvili in the 3rd round of the U.S. Open

Dominik Koepfer upsets Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3 7-6⁵ 4-6 6-1 in the 3^rd round in New York on Friday. Koepfer will have to play Daniil Medvedev in the 4^th round.

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 Dominik conquered in the 6^th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Koepfer took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Basilashvili in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the German to win the set because the Georgean managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 4^th (3-1) game. Dominik kept his focus before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

Notwithstanding also the Georgean won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1

3^rd set.

Basilashvili had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Koepfer in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for the Georgean to win the set because Koepfer managed to break back in the 8^th (4-4) game. Nikoloz maintained his cool to break Koepfer in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

4^th set.

Koepfer won the set after he broke Nikoloz in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game. That break was the key for Koepfer to conquer the set because he didn’t drop his serve in the rest of the set.

Basilashvili was completely wiped out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Koepfer scored 129 points vs. Basilashvili’s 117 points.

Koepfer struck 13 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Koepfer won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 43% (6/14). On the other side, Nikoloz was effective in converting 57% of the break points that he procured points (4/7). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Koepfer and Basilashvili is 1-0 for Dominik.

Next Match: Dominik Koepfer vs. Daniil Medvedev – stats

Koepfer will compete against Medvedev in the 4^th round.

There is no head to head record between Dominik Koepfer and Daniil Medvedev since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

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