Lukas Rosol overcomes Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-2 3-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in Istanbul Challenger on Tuesday. Rosol will seek to keep on going in this event against Ruben Bemelmans in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Blancaneaux started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Rosol in the 1st game (1-0). Rosol managed to strengthen his lead after breaking the French Player in the 7th (5-2) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Geoffrey was unable to find the solution in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Geoffrey conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Blancaneaux conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Rosol in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Rosol was not done to come back to break Geoffrey in the 6th (3-3) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Rosol scored 101 points vs. Blancaneaux’s 94 points.
The Czech won this match even if he had a tough time in converting his break points since he converted only 31% (4/13). On the other side, Blancaneaux was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 29% of his break points (2/7). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Rosol and Blancaneaux is 1-0.
Next Match: Lukas Rosol vs. Ruben Bemelmans – stats
Rosol will compete against Bemelmans in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Lukas Rosol and Ruben Bemelmans clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rosol (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Rosol won 4-6 6-3 7-62 in the 2nd round in Bratislava Challenger back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger
- Lukas RosolRosol – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-2 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Mircea-Alexandru JecanJecan (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Vlad Victor CorneaVictor Cornea (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Blaz KavcicKavcic – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-78 6-3 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Marek GengelGengel (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Maxime JanvierJanvier (1-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Denis IstominIstomin – Mischa ZverevZverev (0-1) – See H2H details
- Aldin SetkicSetkic – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aleksandr NedovesovNedovesov – Baran CengizCengiz (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marius CopilCopil – Rayane RoumaneRoumane (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Lukas RosolRosol (0-1) – See H2H details
- Marsel IlhanIlhan – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Malek JaziriJaziri (0-1) – See H2H details
- Evan HoytHoyt – Marcel GranollersGranollers (0-0) – See H2H details
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – David PoljakPoljak (0-0) – See H2H details
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Santiago GiraldoGiraldo (0-0) – See H2H details