He couldn’t celebrate his twenty-third birthday the way he wanted. He was eliminated in the third and final round of the qualifying phase of Australian Open. On the Sunday the tournament began he celebrated his anniversary in Melbourne. “A lot of people told me to keep hope, that I would still be with the picture. Honestly, I didn’t have much,” he remembers.
In tennis there is the figure of the ‘lucky loser’. If there is a last-minute withdrawal by a tennis player who has already been drawn, they will give up their place to one of the losers in the final qualifying round.
“For me the tournament is over,” admitted the German Eva LysNo. 128 in the world. Although he did his job, arriving first thing in the morning and leaving the complex in the evening. There was no room for him on Sunday or Monday even though “I arrived at 9 in the morning and didn’t get back to the hotel until eleven at night.”
When the plane reservation was completed, Martes changed his life in an instant. He was undergoing physical therapy work when he was warned that he had to go to the KIA Arena, that he had ten minutes to play on the court.
Russian has been removed Anna Kalisskayaone of the main seeds. “I had ten minutes and I wasn’t dressed as a tennis player. I had time to run to the locker room and change. I didn’t even warm up or prepare an isotonic drink,” he said.
Lys overwhelmed the Australian Kimberly Birrell6-2 and 6-2. His second Grand Slam victory, first in Australia. He suffered from the need for urgency but at the same time it was an antidote to nerves.
“I don’t have time to be nervous. My arm seems to loosen up. Maybe that’s the key and I have to repeat it in the next game,” he said with a smile. They will face the French Varvara Gracheva.
He added 70 points to his ranking account to move closer to the top-100. And he got a check 200,000 Australian dollarsabout 120,000 euros.
Lucky, a big little miracle that changed his life. From nothing to everything because of random things. Lys was born in Kyiv (Ukraine), but his family moved to the German city of Hamburg when he was two years old. his father, Vladimiris a tennis coach, has competed in the Davis Cup for his country of origin.
Source: La Verdad
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