Aleksandar Vukic has turn into the newest casualty as Australia’s tennis males tried to play catch-up at Wimbledon.
Vukic, who had gained his opening match on the primary day, went down 6-3 6-1 6-4 to big-serving Frenchman Quentin Halys of their second-round conflict on Thursday because the grass-court grand slam aimed to get again on monitor after two days of rain delays.
The Sydneysider was the primary of 4 Australian males in Thursday motion, with Alex de Minaur, Jason Kubler and Chris O’Connell all nonetheless to finish their first-round matches later, 4 days into the Championships.
World No.87 Vukic, watched by his dad and mom who had flown over from Sydney, hoped to comply with up his excellent first-round win over German Daniel Altmaier with a triumph that may take him into the third spherical of a grand slam for the primary time.
But with Max Purcell, Alexei Popyrin and Jordan Thompson having already departed, Halys ensured there can be no early revival for the Australian males as he pounded down 14 aces and dominated proceedings from the beginning.
“I wasn’t as sharp as I usually am and never really felt like I got into it – and he doesn’t allow you to get into it with the way he plays,” a disillusioned Vukic advised AAP.
The Frenchman, who’d already knocked out British hope Dan Evans within the first spherical, met some resistance within the third set however, locked at 4-4 and break level down, Vukic threw in an bold drop shot that floated large.
Halys then served out to like to seal victory, having cracked 36 winners over the 90 minutes of pretty one-sided motion.
But Vukic, although disillusioned that he could not arrange a third-round date with younger Italian flyer Jannik Sinner, was nonetheless buoyed by having reached the second spherical of an abroad grand slam for the primary time.
“Yes, a lot of it is positive, you keep keep learning,” he mentioned. “I think overall it was very good experience for me, yeah, a positive week for sure.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
