Davidovich defeated Hurkacz on the roller coaster

Alexander Davidovich need five match pointsafter being on the brink of defeat, to defeat the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (7-6 (4), 6-4, 5-7 and 7-6 (8)) sa First round of Wimbledon.

Davidovich, who just injured a finger last week at Eastbourne, where he will have to retire, saved a very rare match, which he was able to judge in three sets, when he had a 40-0 serve, with three match points, and that It is complicated to the point of being two points from the defeat in the fifth set.

Hurkacz, who has only returned from two set downs at a time in his career (first round of Australia 2020), was tied for victory, saving the first three match points against and chaining a 9-2 run in games that allowed sign. until the third and fifth sets.

Pole has victory in his hand. He had a break up in the fifth and went 5-4 and 30-0 on serve. At that point, Hurkacz, a semi-finalist here last year and the seventh seed, volleyed Davidovich’s slide to pass the Pole and start a comeback that ended in the super playoffs. This year, for the first time the Grand Slams unified the standard to decide the fifth set and the fight ended in a tiebreaker with the first reaching ten points.

Hurkacz, who has always been in the lead, satisfied 7-4 to seal the pass, but Davidovich linked up five consecutive points and had two more game balls on serve. The first caught him in the net, but in the second Hurkacz threw a backhand into the net and gave the fight, turning a roller coaster, to Davidovich.

The man from Malaga achieved, in this way, his third victory against a ‘top ten’ of his careerthe second of the year after beating Novak Djokovic in Monte Carlo and for the first time he won a match in the final draw of the tournament, where he won the junior category in 2017. His next rival was Czech Jiri Vesely.