At 4.05am, Andy Murray won one of the greatest Australian Open matches of all time, one that barely anyone saw.
At 4.05am, after nearly six hours, Andy Murray won one of the greatest Australian Open matches of all time. One of the greatest matches that barely anyone saw.
At 35, with a tin hip and down two sets and break points in the third, he found a way to fight back and win just as it seemed the game would run into breakfast TV.“I’m like, you know, it’s great, but I want to sleep.“Tennis needs to change this business of playing at three, four in the morning … I don’t know how it’s beneficial for us, a match like that, you know?
Kokkinakis played brilliant tennis but will feel he missed a chance. At 5-3 in the third set serving for the match, he was broken. It went to a tie break and he had a couple of bad misses on big points. If you can have a career breakthrough match in a loss, then Kokkinakis had it. He will rue chances to close out the match in three sets but he also fought out that fifth set.
The power on serve and return from the pair only increased as the hours stretched. They ran down balls. Murray sensed an opening on Kokkinakis’ game and started rushing the net in the late sets to great effect. It also made for dynamic change-up tennis. Kokkinakis lost his cool when he was penalised for a time violation on serve after waiting for noisy spectators. He argued at length with the umpire.
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