First Ball Forehand

Karen Khachanov defeats Virtanen in the 2nd round to play vs Zhukayev at the Almaty Open. HIGHLIGHTS – ALMATY RESULTS

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Karen Khachanov conquers Otto Virtanen 7-6(2) 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in Almaty on Thursday. Khachanov is going to play against Beibit Zhukayev in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 36 minutes. This run will match his best result in this event. Here you can see his history at this event.

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Almaty
Khachanov’s Record
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The Russian added to his prize money $ 13,140 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 31,335 after this win. If he wins the next match, Karen will add $ 22,740 to his earnings to get in total $ 54,075 in total.

Highlights Karen Khachanov vs. Otto Virtanen Almaty Open – Almaty

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Khachanov
Virtanen
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7-62 7-63
1h:36
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77

77

Total points
61

61

37

37

Winners
37

37

48%

48%

Ratio Winners
61%

61%

— Serve —
5

5

Aces
14

14

1

1

Double Faults
5

5

63%

63%

1st in
62%

62%

88%

88%

1st won
84%

84%

37/42

37/42

1st won
37/44

37/44

68%

68%

2nd won
41%

41%

17/25

17/25

2nd won
11/27

11/27

— Break Points —
1/1

1/1

Total
1/2

1/2

100%

100%

Won
50%

50%

See Full Stats

At the end of the match, Karen scored 77 points vs. the Finn’s 61.

Khachanov

The Russian served pretty well to win 88% of the points (37/42) behind his first serve, and he won 68% points (17/25) on his second serve. The Russian was great in converting the only break point that he conquered.

Virtanen

On the other side, Virtanen was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Khachanov and Virtanen is 1-0 for Karen.

Draw and next match H2H: Karen Khachanov vs. Beibit Zhukayev – stats

Khachanov will square off with Zhukayev in the quarter.

This will be the 2nd time that Karen Khachanov and Beibit Zhukayev clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

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Live score progression and stats

1st Set –
Khachanov 7-6
KhachanovVirtanen
7
6
15
0
30
0
30
15
40
15
KhachanovVirtanen
7
6
0
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
4
2
5
2
6
2
KhachanovVirtanen
6
6
15
0
15
15
30
15
40
15
KhachanovVirtanen
5
6
15
0
30
0
30
15
30
30
30
40
KhachanovVirtanen
5
5
0
15
15
15
30
15
40
15
KhachanovVirtanen
4
5
0
15
0
30
0
40
15
40
KhachanovVirtanen
4
4
15
0
15
15
30
15
40
15
KhachanovVirtanen
3
4
0
15
0
30
0
40
15
40
30
40
KhachanovVirtanen
3
3
15
0
30
0
40
0
KhachanovVirtanen
2
3
0
15
0
30
0
40
KhachanovVirtanen
2
2
15
0
15
15
30
15
30
30
40
30
KhachanovVirtanen
1
2
15
0
30
0
30
15
30
30
30
40
KhachanovVirtanen
1
1
15
0
30
0
40
0
KhachanovVirtanen
0
1
0
15
0
30
0
40
15
40

Khachanov won the set after he broke Otto .

Khachanov conceded 8 points on serve (35-8). on the other side of the net, Virtanen conceded 8 points on serve (24-8).

2nd Set –
Khachanov 7-6
KhachanovVirtanen
7
6
K
1
0
V
2
0
V
2
1
K
2
2
K
3
2
V
3
3
V
4
3
K
5
3
K
6
3
V
7
3
KhachanovVirtanen
6
6
0
15
0
30
15
30
15
40
30
40
KhachanovVirtanen
6
5
15
0
30
0
40
0
KhachanovVirtanen
5
5
0
15
15
15
15
30
15
40
KhachanovVirtanen
5
4
0
15
0
30
15
30
15
40
30
40
KhachanovVirtanen
5
3
0
15
15
15
15
30
15
40
KhachanovVirtanen
5
2
0
15
0
30
15
30
30
30
40
30
KhachanovVirtanen
4
2
0
15
15
15
15
30
15
40
KhachanovVirtanen
4
1
15
0
30
0
40
0
KhachanovVirtanen
3
1
15
0
30
0
40
0
KhachanovVirtanen
2
1
0
15
30
0
40
0
KhachanovVirtanen
1
1
0
15
0
30
0
40

Khachanov won the set after he broke the Finn in the 4th (3-1) game. Otto tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Nonetheless, Karen managed to stay calm and finish the job to eventually clinch the set at the following breaker at 3.

Tiebreak

Khachanov won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 7th (4-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, Otto won a minibreak in the 4th (2-2) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3

They played 64 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Khachanov won just 2 points more than Otto (33-31). Khachanov lost 9 points on serve (22-9). On the losing side, the Finn conceded 11 points on serve (22-11).

1st
Khachanov
Virtanen
7-6
7
6
6
6
5
6
5
5
4
5
4
4
3
4
3
3
2
3
2
2
1
2
1
1
0
1
2nd
Khachanov
Virtanen
7-6
7
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
5
3
5
2
4
2
4
1
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
0
 

Tennis Scores in Almaty

Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Daniel EvansEvans (6-710 7-64 6-3)
Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (7-62 7-63)
Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Tomas MachacMachac (3-1 ret.)
Aleksandar VukicVukic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-64 6-3)
Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Justin EngelEngel (6-4 7-63)
Gabriel DialloDiallo – Borna CoricCoric (7-61 6-4)
Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-1 6-75 7-5)
Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Maximilian MartererMarterer (6-2 6-4)

Upcoming matches

Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (1-0) – H2H details and stats
Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (1-1) – H2H details and stats
Gabriel DialloDiallo – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H details and stats

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