Alejandro Davidovich (30) was eliminated from the Australian Open on Thursday after tripping against American Tommy Paul by a tight 6-2, 2-6, 6-7(4), 6-3 and 6-4 in the second-round clash that lasted nearly four hours.
Therefore, he will not surpass his best record that he got in both 2022 and 2020 and leaving Roberto Bautista (24) and Pablo Carreño (14) as the only national tennis players with options in the last box.
Paul, who reached the quarterfinals in both Canada and Paris Bercy last season, leveled the match with a backhand pass after a long exchange that ended with a cheap climb into the net from the Andalusian.
Paul, who will face his compatriot Jenson Brooksby in the next roundwho sprung a big surprise on the day after Norwegian Casper Ruud was eliminated, connecting on 18 service winners and 54 winners to make a dent in a Davidovich who committed 66 unforced errors.
Despite the loss, the reality is that Davidovich is about to surpass a rival of Paul’s profilevery competitive and capable of defeating top-10 opponents on hard courts, and defeating Kazakh server Alexander Bublik in the first round.
As he himself explained in his first press conference, he has the impressive physique to compete at the highest level in five-set matches, so his only pending task is to maintain the mental strength that can rise to him in privileged positions in the ranking.
Source: La Verdad
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