Russian Karen Khachanov will have a better chance of reaching the Australian Open semi-finals if American Sebastian Korda does not have time to recover from his last match in five sets, says the Honored Master of Sports of Russia Andrei Chesnokov.
Khachanov defeated Japan’s Yoshito Nishioka in the fourth round. Korda at the stage of the third round defeated Daniil Medvedev. In the match of the 1/8 finals, he beat the Pole Hubert Hurkach in five sets.
– Karen has a chance of reaching the semi-finals. Let’s start with the fact that he played very well against Nishioka. He overtook that heavyweight, snatched a win, as they say, in a good way, he suffered. In the first two sets, the level of the opponent was not for Khachanov – 6:0, 6:0. After the first set, a question arose: can a player play tennis? And suddenly he hangs on, and the game begins. It’s good that it all ended like that in three sets.
As for Korda, he’s such a player – when he’s fresh, he plays very well. When he gets tired, the unforced errors start, he starts to crumble. I saw it during the match against Djokovic. The first two sets he played amazing, then he was physically tired. If he is fresh against Khachanov, it will be difficult for Khachanov. If he doesn’t recover after this match in five sets, then Khachanov has a good chance of going to the semi-finals, Chesnokov told Vprognoze.ru.
Korda and Khachanov are the first pair of quarter-finalists in the current Australian Open. The 26-year-old Russian has never made it past the third round of an Australian Grand Slam before.
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Source : MatchTV
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