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Australian Open: the elimination of Ruud, the surprise Volynets, the skid of Chardy, what to remember from the night in Melbourne

2023-01-19T06:17:05.183Z


The Norwegian was taken out in the second round by the surprising American Brooksby, the astonishing Volynets and the incident between the beaten Frenchman and the referee, a look back at the highlights of the night at the Australian Open.


The Brooksby Sensation, American Night


Jenson Brooksby (22 years old; 39th), the American, nonchalant, never giving the impression of forcing or of being able to give the ball crazy speed, played with great precision, led with a very effective, had 3 match points at 5-4 in the 3rd set, without managing to conclude against Casper Ruud (n°2), then tipped over with an eye found in a 4th set led with a bang.

The loss of the 3rd set quickly digested, he, in the long exchanges and by the quality of his returns, of his opposite feet put Casper Ruud to the torture to afford the second Top 10 of his career (after Stefanos Tsitsipas at Indian Wells, last year) on his 5th match point 6-3, 7-5, 6-7' 4/7), 6-2.

After Rafael Nadal (No. 1), the tournament sees the premature disappearance of its No. 2 seed.

Brooksby, an atypical game,

early catches, a wide variety of shots, a rare ability to hide his strikes, a keen sense of anticipation, a way of cutting the rebound, a set that offered him to unseat Casper Ruud.

The Norwegian was with Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitispas, among the players who can climb to the place of world No. 1 sees a great opportunity collapse at the end of a match during which he suffered and asked for a medical break in the changing rooms after the 2nd set.

Tommy Paul (35th) eliminated Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (n°30) 6-2, 2-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4.

Brooksby and Paul meet in the third round.

And JJ Wolf (66th) dominated Argentinian Diego Schwartzman (n°23) 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

a keen sense of anticipation, a way of cutting the rebound, a set that offered him to unhorse Casper Ruud.

The Norwegian was with Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitispas, among the players who can climb to the place of world No. 1 sees a great opportunity collapse at the end of a match during which he suffered and asked for a medical break in the changing rooms after the 2nd set.

Tommy Paul (35th) eliminated Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (n°30) 6-2, 2-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4.

Brooksby and Paul meet in the third round.

And JJ Wolf (66th) dominated Argentinian Diego Schwartzman (n°23) 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

a keen sense of anticipation, a way to cut the rebound, a set that offered him to unhorse Casper Ruud.

The Norwegian was with Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitispas, among the players who can climb to the place of world No. 1 sees a great opportunity collapse at the end of a match during which he suffered and asked for a medical break in the changing rooms after the 2nd set.

Tommy Paul (35th) eliminated Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (n°30) 6-2, 2-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4.

Brooksby and Paul meet in the third round.

And JJ Wolf (66th) dominated Argentinian Diego Schwartzman (n°23) 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

among the players who can climb to the place of world No. 1 sees a great opportunity collapse at the end of a match during which he suffered and requested a medical break in the locker room after the 2nd set.

Tommy Paul (35th) eliminated Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (n°30) 6-2, 2-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4.

Brooksby and Paul meet in the third round.

And JJ Wolf (66th) dominated Argentinian Diego Schwartzman (n°23) 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

among the players who can climb to the place of world No. 1 sees a great opportunity collapse at the end of a match during which he suffered and requested a medical break in the locker room after the 2nd set.

Tommy Paul (35th) eliminated Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (n°30) 6-2, 2-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4.

Brooksby and Paul meet in the third round.

And JJ Wolf (66th) dominated Argentinian Diego Schwartzman (n°23) 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

To discover

  • Australian Open: ladies schedule and results

  • Australian Open: men's schedule and results

The perf'


For the American Katie Volynets, 21 (113th in the world), from qualifying who dominated the Russian Veronika Kudermetova (n ° 9) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 to reach the third round of the 'Australian Open.

This is her best Grand Slam run (she had spent a round at Roland-Garros last year).

All of a sudden you get match point and you're like, 'wow, I've got match point against the ninth seed.

You just have to go for it and let it be.

I literally have chills.

I have never played in such a full stadium (Margareth Court Arena) and with so many people which gives me energy

“Summarized with a smile, the one who for the first time in her career was facing a Top 10 player. For her sixth appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam, she is the first qualified American to reach the third round. women's singles at Melbourne Park since Lindsay Davenport in 1993. She will face Croatian Petra Martic or Chinese Shuai Zhang in the third round.

The sentence:

I have never seen such a bad referee, were you watching the birds?

Signed


Jérémy Chardy.

The French defeated 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 the Briton Daniel Evans (30th) at the end of a one-sided match won against the referee the German Miriam Bley at 3-3 in the first set.

The referee did not immediately see that a ball had fallen from Chardy's pocket and only interrupted the rally two shots later... when the Frenchman's ball stopped in the net.

She nevertheless gave the point and validated the break for Evans, triggering the anger of the Frenchman: “

I have never seen such a bad referee, were you watching the birds?

Not a referee on the circuit would make this mistake

“, he thundered before requiring the arrival of a supervisor who confirmed the decision of the referee.

Sometimes, when you're angry, you become stupid (…) But it also feels good, it's been a long time since I got angry with a referee.

It's the return to competition, with the good and the bad

, ”he then explained at a press conference.

For his comeback on the circuit since his defeat in the 1st round of the US Open 2021, the Frenchman (35) had, against the Colombian Daniel Galan (70th in the world), won his first victory since a victorious match in the round of 16 of the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021 against Briton Liam Broady.

Evans will face in the next round the Russian Andrey Rublev (6th), winner of the Finn Emil Ruusuvuori (46th).

The tweet


To accompany the very fashionable double of the double Uruguayan Ariel Behar and Colombian Nicolas Barrientos dressed in skull T-shirts during a match won 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 against the tandem composed of Nicolas Mahut and the German Tim Puetz.

The stat


American Ben Shelton (228 km/h) and Kazakh Elena Rybakina (195 km/h) fired the fastest serves since the start of the Australian Open.

The image


taken from the archives.

It recalls a 1st round lost by a pair of hopefuls made up of Novak Djokovic (in the running from 9 a.m. against the Frenchman Enzo Coucaud) and Andy Murray who, in 2006, lost in the 1st round of the Open d' Australia against the duo of Fabrice Santoro and Serbian Nenad Zimonjic.

Vintage.

Djokovic and Murray are among 11 players who were in the big draw at the 2013 Australian Open and were in contention ten years later.

The last session


Sam Stosur played his last career women's doubles match with Alizé Cornet.

The Australian and the French lost 6-3, 6-4 against Chinese Zhaoxuan Yang and Hao-Ching Chan (n°11).

The winner of the 2011 US Open (9 titles in singles and 28 in doubles) will still compete in mixed doubles with her compatriot Matt Ebden before bowing out at the age of 38.

The chase


Led 1 set 0 and broken early in the 2nd set, the Polish Magda Linette managed to overthrow the Estonian Anett Kontaveit 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to join her compatriots Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz in the 3rd round.

She will be opposed to the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova (n°19).

In the blue corner


After his success against Richard Gasquet, Ugo Humbert was at 7am with 1 set everywhere.

He led 2-0 in the 3rd set against the Polish Denis Kudla (102nd).

To be continued

, from 9 a.m.: on the Rod Laver Arena, Novak Djokovic will be opposed to the Frenchman Enzo Couacaud, before the duel between the Tunisian Ons Jabeur (n ° 2) and the Czech Marketa Vondrousova.

On the Margareth Court Arena, the Swiss Belinda Bencic (n°12) and the American Clare Liu will open the program, before the highly anticipated match between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Andy Murray.

Source: lefigaro

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