Borna Coric beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6(0), 6-2 in the Cincinnati final, 2022 on hard court
Coric was unseeded, ranked 152 and gained entry to the event with a protected ranking. He beat 5 seeded players in winning the title. Tsitsipas was seeded 4 and had won Monte Carlo earlier in the year
Coric won 79 points, Tsitsipas 61
Serve Stats
Coric...
- 1st serve percentage (43/72) 60%
- 1st serve points won (36/43) 84%
- 2nd serve points won (14/29) 48%
- Aces 8 (1 second serve, 1 not clean)
- Double Faults 2
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (25/72) 35%
Tsitsipas...
- 1st serve percentage (44/68) 65%
- 1st serve points won (28/44) 64%
- 2nd serve points won (11/24) 46%
- Aces 6
- Double Faults 4
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (18/68) 26%
Serve Pattern
Coric served...
- to FH 33%
- to BH 67%
Tsitsipas served...
- to FH 50%
- to BH 48%
- to Body 2%
Return Stats
Coric made...
- 46 (23 FH, 23 BH)
- 1 Winner (1 FH)
- 12 Errors, comprising...
- 7 Unforced (3 FH, 4 BH)
- 5 Forced (4 FH, 1 BH)
- Return Rate (46/54) 72%
Tsitsipas made...
- 45 (19 FH, 26 BH), including 7 runaround FHs
- 17 Errors, comprising...
- 7 Unforced (2 FH, 5 BH), including 1 runaround FH
- 10 Forced (3 FH, 7 BH)
- Return Rate (45/70) 64%
Break Points
Coric 3/12 (5 games)
Tsitsipas 1/7 (3 games)
Winners (including returns, excluding aces)
Coric 22 (10 FH, 9 BH, 2 OH, 1 Back-to-Net BH)
Tsitsipas 19 (9 FH, 4 FHV, 3 BHV, 3 OH)
Coric's FHs - 1 cc return pass, 3 dtl, 2 inside-out, 2 inside-in, 1 longline, 1 drop shot at net
- BHs - 4 cc (2 passes - 1 at net), 4 dtl, 1 running-down-drop-shot cc pass at net
- 1 OHs were on the bounce (1 from baseline)
- the Back-to-Net BH was a lob
Tsitsipas' FHs - 3 cc (1 pass), 1 cc/inside-in, 2 inside-out, 1 inside-in, 1 longline pass, 1 drop shot
- 7 from serve-volley points -
- 3 first volleys (1 FHV, 1 BHV, 1 OH)
- 4 second volleys (3 FHV, 1 BHV
Errors (excluding returns and serves)
Coric 22
- 16 Unforced (13 FH, 2 BH, 1 FHV)
- 6 Forced (4 FH, 2 BH)... with 1 BH running-down-drop-shot at net
Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 45.6
Tsitsipas 28
- 28 Unforced (10 FH, 15 BH, 3 FHV)
Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 43.9
(Note 1: all half-volleys refer to such shots played at net. Half -volleys played from other parts of the court are included within relevant groundstroke counts)
(Note 2: The 'Unforced Error Forcefulness Index is a measure of how aggressive of intent the average UE made was. 60 is maximum, 20 is minimum. This match has been scored using a four point scale - 2 defensive, 4 neutral, 5 attacking, 6 winner attempt)
Net Points & Serve-Volley
Coric was...
- 6/11 (55%) at net, including...
- 0/1 serve-volleying, a 2nd serve
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- 2/3 (67%) forced back
Tsitsipas was...
- 14/22 (64%) at net, including...
- 7/11 (64%) serve-volleying, comprising...
- 5/9 (56%) off 1st serve and...
- 2/2 off 2nd serve
Match Report
So poor from Tsitsipas that one can’t help wonder if he threw the match. He has his moments early on, but plays with so little effort, and makes such errors, including during crucial passages like the tiebreak, that it’s a possibility. Coric on other side is solid, but it seems like he’s playing someone who’d rather be somewhere else. Court is normal
In particular, the high number of mishits are striking. To see Tsis frame and mishit and whiff so many balls, would think it was a bad bouncing grass court. BH has 0 winners, match high 15 UEs with any drive that reaches service line being ‘good’ from him, to go with a floaty slice that’s more like most players’ defensive ‘get’ than a slice
There’s lack of effort in his movement so that when a random point is played with just normal, hustling movement, it stands out. He has 0 FEs because anything attacking from Coric goes for a winner. In small few cases, balls that’d be marked a UE if he moved properly for them go through for a winner
‘Drop shots’ don’t even force Coric to net. Its more accurate description to call them ‘invitation to rip groundstroke from service line’ than ‘drop shots’
Everyone has bad days. This goes into consider-fining-for-lack-of-effort and investigate-betting-patterns bad. No overt signs of physical trouble to account for it
Coric with a 22 winners, 16 UEs showing, to go with healthy 35% unreturned serves. He plays a good match, but those are flattering numbers. Returning well (handling tough serves from well-back position) is best part of it. BH with very exceptional 9 winners, 2 UEs is bolstered by shortcomings in Tsis’, but he does choose to be aggressive with it
Unreturned serves - Coric 35%, Tsis 26%, comprising…
Aces - Coric 8, Tsis 6
Return FEs drawn - Coric 10, Tsis 5
Return UEs drawn - both 7
Tsis with better serve, Coric returning well (and better than Tsis)
Tsis’ first serve better placed and more powerful. Coric keeps a well-back position to return. Handles the pace and makes the tough returns with fair authority (that is, not leaving easy third ball to attack). Low return FEs for Coric. That’s with Tsis augmenting serve with 11 serve-volleys (Coric does so once, a second serve point that he loses)
After a good start of making difficult returns, Tsis seems to miss every not-easy return for rest of match. Few mishits to routine returns too. One of Coric’s aces is a non-clean ‘whiff’that Tsis just grazes. The ball would have been marked a UE had he made proper contact, it’s as routine a return as can be
And Tsis double faulting more (4 or 17% of second serves, to Coric’s 2 or 7%), including to open the tiebreak
Coming away with 35% unreturned is a bonus for Coric. He’s usually in swing zone with his first serve, with just decent power on first serves. He has done well to keep Tsis’ freebies down to 26% though
Coric plays a solid baseline game of keeping ball in play firmly and taking it from there. Tsis comes to net and serve-volleys significantly. From the baseline, his BH is awful in all ways, but FHs a match for Coric
Neutral UEs - Coric 10, Tsis 20
FHs - Coric 10 winners, 13 UEs, Tsis 9 winners, 10 UEs
BHs - Coric 9 winners, 2 UEs, Tsis 15 UEs
Neutral UEs is backbone of the kind of action on show. Big gap is discredit to Tsis’ sloppiness, not credit to Coric being overly rock like. And its almost all down to BHs
Horrendous BH showing from Tsis. Leaving aside all the errors, they don’t long in coming, the ones he makes are short and/or feeble and the number of mishits he makes is baffling for a hard court. He’s not aggressive with it and just misses routine cc shots. To his credit, Coric isn’t content to just let Tsis sink himself and isn’t slow to take on weaker offerings. He’s got 4 dtl winners and 2 cc in baseline rallies
Ironically, probably the best BH Tsis hits - a hard, swiped, deep cc shot - is dispatched dtl for winner
Good contest of the FH though, both with sturdy stock play and both able to finish with strong shots
Coric was unseeded, ranked 152 and gained entry to the event with a protected ranking. He beat 5 seeded players in winning the title. Tsitsipas was seeded 4 and had won Monte Carlo earlier in the year
Coric won 79 points, Tsitsipas 61
Serve Stats
Coric...
- 1st serve percentage (43/72) 60%
- 1st serve points won (36/43) 84%
- 2nd serve points won (14/29) 48%
- Aces 8 (1 second serve, 1 not clean)
- Double Faults 2
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (25/72) 35%
Tsitsipas...
- 1st serve percentage (44/68) 65%
- 1st serve points won (28/44) 64%
- 2nd serve points won (11/24) 46%
- Aces 6
- Double Faults 4
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (18/68) 26%
Serve Pattern
Coric served...
- to FH 33%
- to BH 67%
Tsitsipas served...
- to FH 50%
- to BH 48%
- to Body 2%
Return Stats
Coric made...
- 46 (23 FH, 23 BH)
- 1 Winner (1 FH)
- 12 Errors, comprising...
- 7 Unforced (3 FH, 4 BH)
- 5 Forced (4 FH, 1 BH)
- Return Rate (46/54) 72%
Tsitsipas made...
- 45 (19 FH, 26 BH), including 7 runaround FHs
- 17 Errors, comprising...
- 7 Unforced (2 FH, 5 BH), including 1 runaround FH
- 10 Forced (3 FH, 7 BH)
- Return Rate (45/70) 64%
Break Points
Coric 3/12 (5 games)
Tsitsipas 1/7 (3 games)
Winners (including returns, excluding aces)
Coric 22 (10 FH, 9 BH, 2 OH, 1 Back-to-Net BH)
Tsitsipas 19 (9 FH, 4 FHV, 3 BHV, 3 OH)
Coric's FHs - 1 cc return pass, 3 dtl, 2 inside-out, 2 inside-in, 1 longline, 1 drop shot at net
- BHs - 4 cc (2 passes - 1 at net), 4 dtl, 1 running-down-drop-shot cc pass at net
- 1 OHs were on the bounce (1 from baseline)
- the Back-to-Net BH was a lob
Tsitsipas' FHs - 3 cc (1 pass), 1 cc/inside-in, 2 inside-out, 1 inside-in, 1 longline pass, 1 drop shot
- 7 from serve-volley points -
- 3 first volleys (1 FHV, 1 BHV, 1 OH)
- 4 second volleys (3 FHV, 1 BHV
Errors (excluding returns and serves)
Coric 22
- 16 Unforced (13 FH, 2 BH, 1 FHV)
- 6 Forced (4 FH, 2 BH)... with 1 BH running-down-drop-shot at net
Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 45.6
Tsitsipas 28
- 28 Unforced (10 FH, 15 BH, 3 FHV)
Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 43.9
(Note 1: all half-volleys refer to such shots played at net. Half -volleys played from other parts of the court are included within relevant groundstroke counts)
(Note 2: The 'Unforced Error Forcefulness Index is a measure of how aggressive of intent the average UE made was. 60 is maximum, 20 is minimum. This match has been scored using a four point scale - 2 defensive, 4 neutral, 5 attacking, 6 winner attempt)
Net Points & Serve-Volley
Coric was...
- 6/11 (55%) at net, including...
- 0/1 serve-volleying, a 2nd serve
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- 2/3 (67%) forced back
Tsitsipas was...
- 14/22 (64%) at net, including...
- 7/11 (64%) serve-volleying, comprising...
- 5/9 (56%) off 1st serve and...
- 2/2 off 2nd serve
Match Report
So poor from Tsitsipas that one can’t help wonder if he threw the match. He has his moments early on, but plays with so little effort, and makes such errors, including during crucial passages like the tiebreak, that it’s a possibility. Coric on other side is solid, but it seems like he’s playing someone who’d rather be somewhere else. Court is normal
In particular, the high number of mishits are striking. To see Tsis frame and mishit and whiff so many balls, would think it was a bad bouncing grass court. BH has 0 winners, match high 15 UEs with any drive that reaches service line being ‘good’ from him, to go with a floaty slice that’s more like most players’ defensive ‘get’ than a slice
There’s lack of effort in his movement so that when a random point is played with just normal, hustling movement, it stands out. He has 0 FEs because anything attacking from Coric goes for a winner. In small few cases, balls that’d be marked a UE if he moved properly for them go through for a winner
‘Drop shots’ don’t even force Coric to net. Its more accurate description to call them ‘invitation to rip groundstroke from service line’ than ‘drop shots’
Everyone has bad days. This goes into consider-fining-for-lack-of-effort and investigate-betting-patterns bad. No overt signs of physical trouble to account for it
Coric with a 22 winners, 16 UEs showing, to go with healthy 35% unreturned serves. He plays a good match, but those are flattering numbers. Returning well (handling tough serves from well-back position) is best part of it. BH with very exceptional 9 winners, 2 UEs is bolstered by shortcomings in Tsis’, but he does choose to be aggressive with it
Unreturned serves - Coric 35%, Tsis 26%, comprising…
Aces - Coric 8, Tsis 6
Return FEs drawn - Coric 10, Tsis 5
Return UEs drawn - both 7
Tsis with better serve, Coric returning well (and better than Tsis)
Tsis’ first serve better placed and more powerful. Coric keeps a well-back position to return. Handles the pace and makes the tough returns with fair authority (that is, not leaving easy third ball to attack). Low return FEs for Coric. That’s with Tsis augmenting serve with 11 serve-volleys (Coric does so once, a second serve point that he loses)
After a good start of making difficult returns, Tsis seems to miss every not-easy return for rest of match. Few mishits to routine returns too. One of Coric’s aces is a non-clean ‘whiff’that Tsis just grazes. The ball would have been marked a UE had he made proper contact, it’s as routine a return as can be
And Tsis double faulting more (4 or 17% of second serves, to Coric’s 2 or 7%), including to open the tiebreak
Coming away with 35% unreturned is a bonus for Coric. He’s usually in swing zone with his first serve, with just decent power on first serves. He has done well to keep Tsis’ freebies down to 26% though
Coric plays a solid baseline game of keeping ball in play firmly and taking it from there. Tsis comes to net and serve-volleys significantly. From the baseline, his BH is awful in all ways, but FHs a match for Coric
Neutral UEs - Coric 10, Tsis 20
FHs - Coric 10 winners, 13 UEs, Tsis 9 winners, 10 UEs
BHs - Coric 9 winners, 2 UEs, Tsis 15 UEs
Neutral UEs is backbone of the kind of action on show. Big gap is discredit to Tsis’ sloppiness, not credit to Coric being overly rock like. And its almost all down to BHs
Horrendous BH showing from Tsis. Leaving aside all the errors, they don’t long in coming, the ones he makes are short and/or feeble and the number of mishits he makes is baffling for a hard court. He’s not aggressive with it and just misses routine cc shots. To his credit, Coric isn’t content to just let Tsis sink himself and isn’t slow to take on weaker offerings. He’s got 4 dtl winners and 2 cc in baseline rallies
Ironically, probably the best BH Tsis hits - a hard, swiped, deep cc shot - is dispatched dtl for winner
Good contest of the FH though, both with sturdy stock play and both able to finish with strong shots