There are eleven Spaniards with a place in the individual draws of the 2024 Australian Open, which will be held from the 14th to the 28th at Melbourne Park. In Sunday’s historic start, a new one in this edition, the first victory of Spanish tennis came in less than two hours.
The Majorcan Jaume Munar sent with unexpected solvency one of the players who made the most progress last season, the Russian Alexander Shevchenko.
Equaled by the Spaniard, 26 years old and No. 83, his best result in the first Grand Slam of the season when he beat the Russian, 23 years old and No. 48, 6-3, 6-3 and 6-1.
He will have in front of him, on Wednesday, a veteran, either Swiss Stan Wawrinkaformer tournament champion, or the French Adrian Mannarino.
Munar He claimed the right to dream after deciding to change the direction of his career. “I have had the best preseason of my life, with many changes that have made me leave my comfort zone,” he announced after his victory.
Among the changes adopted, “I am now able to spend less time practicing and at the tennis level I have changed some things in the serve and forehand, for example, I have changed it from top to bottom.”
Jaume Munar His “obsession” is to reach the top-50. For this reason, “my game is very different now, I try to move forward and break barriers.”
All or nothing because “it was six years where I stopped on a personal level, not on a tennis level.” And he wants to make his own revolution. In November, at the end of the season, he will review this change.
Source: La Verdad
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