Karen Chaczanow

[Kamileki]

[arti]

[Damian]

Felix, Khachanov Among Early Rome Casualties

Spoiler:

Dimitrov, Anderson, Nishikori and Sinner in action on day one


Felix Auger-Aliassime and Karen Khachanov both fell in the Internazionali BNL d’Italia first round on Monday.

Filip Krajinovic lost just three of his first service points (27/30) in a 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 16 seed Auger-Aliassime in one hour and 43 minutes. Krajinovic will now play Kyle Edmund or qualifier Marco Cecchinato.

In another early upset, Casper Ruud created 17 break point chances in a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over No. 11 seed Khachanov in two hours and 14 minutes. The Norwegian awaits the winner of Lorenzo Sonego or Nikoloz Basilashvili.

Tennys Sandgren, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Facundo Bagnis, Federico Coria, Dominik Koepfer, Pedro Martinez and Lorenzo Musetti also progressed through qualifying for a place in the main draw.

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[Kamileki]

[Damian]

Khachanov Cruises, Fognini Upset At Roland Garros

Spoiler:

Russian is into second round for fourth straight year

Karen Khachanov has enjoyed success at Roland Garros throughout his career, and the 15th seed got off to a good start at this year's event on Monday in Paris.

Khachanov defeated Kamil Majchrzak 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-3 in one hour and 56 minutes to reach the second round. The Russian has advanced to at least the fourth round on the terre battue in the past three years. Last year, he made the quarter-finals.

The 24-year-old, an aggressive baseliner, only made 22 unforced errors in his victory. Khachanov broke serve five times. He will next play Czech Jiri Vesely, who won a battle of lefties against Liam Broady 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 in two hours and 46 minutes.

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[Kamileki]

[Damian]

Karen Khachanov needed to work hard on Thursday to maintain his record of always reaching the Roland Garros third round.

The Russian No. 15 seed dug deep to beat Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-7(4), 7-6(7), 7-6(2) in three hours and 35 minutes. He won 67 of 81 first-serve points (83 per cent) and hit 65 winners.

Khachanov needed to save sets points at 5-6, 30/40 in the third set, then at 6/7 in the tie-break, and the 24-year-old also recovered from 2-5 and saved three set points at 4-5 in the fourth set.

The World No. 16 will next challenge No. 20 seed Cristian Garin, who found a way past lucky loser Marc Polmans 6-7(5), 6-2, 7-6(3), 6-4 in three hours and 41 minutes.

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[Kamileki]

[Damian]

Khachanov/Rublev Save Match Point, Stun Top Seeds In St Petersburg

Spoiler:

Second seeds Peers/Venus advance in Sardinia
Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev pulled off a thrilling upset at the St. Petersburg Open in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The home favourites saved one match point to beat top seeds Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski 6-7(6), 6-3, 13-11, advancing to the second round.

Khachanov and Rublev hit 11 aces as a team and saved all three break points they faced to triumph after one hour and 37 minutes. The Russians faced match point at 8/9 in the Match Tie-break, but they held their nerve to oust the Brits, who began the week seventh in the FedEx ATP Doubles Team Rankings.

This is not the first time the singles stars have earned a big win on the doubles court. As a team, Khachanov and Rublev have reached ATP Masters 1000 finals at the 2018 Miami Open presented by Itau and the 2019 Rolex Paris Masters. They will next play Alexander Bublik and Reilly Opelka, who beat Nikola Cacic and Miomir Kecmanovic 2-6, 7-6(5), 10-8.

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Peers/Venus Advance In Sardinia
In the only doubles match Monday at the Forte Village Sardegna Open, second seeds John Peers and Michael Venus eliminated wild cards Marco Cecchinato and Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-4. Peers and Venus will play Jonny O'Mara and Marcelo Arevalo or Andrey Golubev and Aleksandr Nedovyesov in the second round.

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[Kamileki]

[Kamileki]

Medvedev & Khachanov Complete Rising Russian Trio: Three Russians have broken into the Top 10 in the past 16 months: Rublev, Daniil Medvedev and Karen Khachanov. All three Russian stars are in the St. Petersburg draw, with Medvedev leading the way at the ATP 500 as the top seed and defending champion. Medvedev faces a stiff test in the first round against former World No. 7 Richard Gasquet, who beat him 6-0, 6-3 at 2018 Montpellier in their only previous clash. Fourth seed Khachanov opens against Aussie James Duckworth.

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[Kamileki]

[DUN I LOVE]

Dopiero pierwsza ćwiartka Chaczanowa w Petersburgu.

[Kamileki]

[Damian]

Khachanov Avoids Bergs Upset In Antwerp

Spoiler:

Raonic through in straight sets

Karen Khachanov survived a scare at the European Open on Thursday, beating Belgian wild card Zizou Bergs 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

The World No. 17 claimed late breaks in the final two sets to reach his third quarter-final of 2020 after two hours and 22 minutes. Khachanov is through to the last eight at an ATP Tour event for the second straight week, having reached the St. Petersburg Open quarter-finals last week.

The Russian was forced to battle for his 20th victory this season (20-12), as Bergs played with aggression on his return and attacked Khachanov’s forehand to earn the first set. But Khachanov placed Bergs in uncomfortable positions at the net in crucial moments to turn the match in his favour.


Bergs was attempting to become the first player outside the Top 500 to reach an ATP Tour quarter-final since Andy Murray’s run to the last eight at the 2019 China Open. The 21-year-old, who was appearing in his first ATP Tour event, beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas to claim his maiden tour-level victory on Tuesday.

“A lot of people are believing a lot in me, that is an enormous boost that I don’t take for granted because when things go bad they might go away again,” said Bergs. “For myself, it is an enormous boost. I knew I could do it though, because when I started I was really confident and I was just happy I could bring it in the matches.

“Beating a Top 50 player in Ramos-Vinolas and pushing Khachanov to a really tight match, which I had opportunities in, is a great boost I will keep building on.”

Khachanov will meet British No. 1 Daniel Evans in the quarter-finals. Evans recovered from a set down to win his only previous ATP Head2Head meeting against Khachanov at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in February.

Milos Raonic produced a fine serving display to reach his fifth quarter-final of the year, beating Cameron Norrie 7-5, 7-6(4). The fifth seed landed 19 aces and dropped just four points behind his first serve (34/38) to overcome the Brit in one hour and 49 minutes. Raonic is through to his second straight quarter-final on indoor hard courts, having reached the semi-finals at last week’s St. Petersburg Open (l. to Coric).

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Raonic improves to 19-8 this season and will face Grigor Dimitrov in the quarter-finals. Dimitrov will enter his sixth ATP Head2Head encounter against the Canadian with a 3-2 record, but Raonic won the pair’s most recent clash at the 2018 Mutua Madrid Open.

Raonic is attempting to capture his first ATP Tour title since beating Roger Federer to win his eighth tour-level trophy at 2016 Brisbane. The World No. 19 has reached seven finals since that triumph, including this year’s Western & Southern Open championship match (l. to Djokovic).

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[Damian]

[Kamileki]

[Lucas]

Former Champ Khachanov: The only former singles champion in the field is big-hitting Russian Karen Khachanov. In 2018, he lost just one set during a magical run to his maiden Masters 1000 title. Khachanov earned four consecutive Top 10 wins to triumph, culminating with a victory against Djokovic in the final. This year, Khachanov opens against qualifier Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.

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[Barty]

AUTUMN ANGUISH: KAREN KHACHANOV UNABLE TO REKINDLE PARIS MASTERS MAGIC

Spoiler:

Seeded No. 11, the 2018 Paris-Bercy champion was sent packing in the first round on Monday by qualifier Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2.

By Joel Drucker

November 02, 2020

Karen Khachanov intrigues. Two years ago, at the Rolex Paris Masters, he made a spectacular run to the title. Ranked just inside the Top 20 that week, Khachanov’s victims in Paris included four top tenners—John Isner, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem and, in the final, Novak Djokovic.

“He can really hurt you,” said Djokovic following that 7-5, 6-4 defeat. “That's a big weapon. And serve. I mean, serve is really, really strong and precise. So his overall game was really, really great all week.”

Also fueled by an imaginative sense of the court and a vivid passion for competition, the 6’ 6” Khachanov soon made his way into the Top 10 and in July 2019, reached a career-high ranking of No. 8. He appeared to have the goods to go higher.

Since then, though, Khachanov has stumbled. Defending his title in Paris in 2019, Khachanov lost in the second round to 36th-ranked Jan-Lennard Struff. This year, the 24-year-old Russian has often come up short in matches you’d think a sustainable top tenner would win. At the Australian Open, Khachanov lost in a fifth-set tiebreaker to Nick Kyrgios in the third round. In New York, another Aussie, Alex de Minaur, eliminated him at the same stage.

More recently, in his last three tournaments leading up to Paris, Khachanov has been beaten by Grigor Dimitrov, Daniel Evans, and Milos Raonic—all certainly good players, but based on his late ’18 and early ‘19 rise up the ranks, rivals Khachanov might have been expected to conclusively surpass. Indeed, the contemporary ATP Top 40 is quite competitive.

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Currently ranked No. 19 and seeded 11th in Paris, Khachanov commenced his Paris Masters campaign on Monday versus a 21-year-old qualifier, 63rd-ranked Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. The Russian’s autumn anguish continued. After losing the first set, 6-3, Khachanov took command of the second, 6-2, and appeared ready to boldly start the third. It didn’t go that way, with Davidovich Fokina cashing in two of two break point opportunities to race through the decider, 6-2.

The A-grade Khachanov is a roaring jet in fast motion, able to blister the ball and smother his opponents. But if all engines aren’t clicking, he becomes far less convincing. Khachanov’s US Open revealed much. In the first round, he labored hard to overcome another ascending talent, Jannik Sinner, by the topsy-turvy score of, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-0, 7-6 (4). The loss to De Minaur was another rollercoaster, Khachanov overtaken by the tenacious Aussie, 6-4, 0-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Though he subsequently reached the round of 16 at Roland Garros for the fourth straight year, Khachanov was handily beaten by Djokovic, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

Parenthood has also factored into Khachanov’s journey. On September 14, 2019, his wife Veronika gave birth to a boy, David. Asked at Roland Garros this year what it means to be a father, Khachanov said, “it's one of the best moments for sure in life for every person to have a kid in your hands. During those difficult times, like in terms of pandemic, I think for whole world, as well as tennis players being away from the tour, I think that was a really good time to spend together with my family, with my son, to see him growing up.

“I'm kind of thankful for that opportunity to have together, to see him growing up. Sooner or later hopefully they can travel with me, he can watch me play. That's a happy moment, of course.”

Khachanov is scheduled to play next week in Sofia, Bulgaria. Between becoming a father and grappling with the pandemic, his last two years have been quite challenging. As this year nears its end and a complicated buildup for 2021 gets underway, it will be fascinating to see how his journey continues.

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[Damian]

Karen pozytywny.