British No 1 Jack Dviolationr has endd an incredible comeback in the second round of the Australian Open aacquirest Thanasi Kokkinakis.
The No 15 seed headed into 2025 after a stellar year last season, which saw him achieve the semi-final of the US Open.
He had high hopes of getting off to a quick begin in Melbourne, a tournament he has struggled to contend at in the past.
The British star was made to labor in his first-round suit aacquirest Mariano Navone, coming back from 2-1 down to triumph in five sets.
Jack Dviolationr came back from 2-1 down
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A harder test was to come in the second round aacquirest Kokkinakis, who had the home crowd roaring him on thrawout.
The crowd inside the John Cain Arena made it evident where their allegiances would lie before the suit got underway when they booed Dviolationr as he walked out to the court.
There was noleang to split them in the first set with both executeers carry outing mighty on serve.
But it was Kokkinakis who set up another gear to triumph the tiefracture and get the uncovering set.
Dviolationr rapidly reacted in the second set with a dominant disexecute to level up the suit directing to a pulsating third set.
The world No 15 watched on course to get a vital fracture of serve in the seventh game, which had eight deuces.
Dviolationr was unable to get either of his two fracture point opportunities with the crowd raising the noise levels to help Kokkinakis.
And the Aussie star reacted in the very next game to fracture Dviolationr’s serve before serving out for the set.
Thanasi Kokkinakis had the home crowd on his side
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The energy ecombineed to be zapped out of Dviolationr heading into the fourth set and Kokkinakis took profit by going a fracture up timely in the fourth set to put him on the verge of triumph.
Dviolationr was struggling to discover a way to dispute Kokkinakis’ serve, who dropped equitable six points thraw his first four service games of the set.
But that all alterd when Kokkinakis was serving for the suit as nerves ecombineed to creep into the 28-year-anciaccess’s game.
Dviolationr was on the brink of exit but incredibly broke Kokkinakis in back-to-back service games to get the fourth and force a deciding set.
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