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Aleksandar Vukic has develop into the most recent casualty as Australia’s tennis males tried to play catch-up at Wimbledon.
Vukic, who had received his opening match on the primary day, went down 6-3 6-1 6-4 to big-serving Frenchman Quentin Halys of their second-round conflict on Thursday because the grasscourt grand slam aimed to get again on monitor after two days of rain delays.
The Sydneysider was the primary of 4 Australian males in Thursday motion, with Alex de Minaur, Jason Kubler and Chris O’Connell all nonetheless to finish their first-round matches later, 4 days into the Championships.
World No.87 Vukic, watched by his mother and father who had flown over from Sydney, hoped to comply with up his excellent first-round win over German Daniel Altmaier with a triumph that might take him into the third spherical of a grand slam for the primary time.
However with Max Purcell, Alexei Popyrin and Jordan Thompson having already departed, Halys ensured there can be no early revival for the Australian males as he pounded down 14 aces and dominated proceedings from the beginning.
“I wasn’t as sharp as I normally am and by no means actually felt like I bought into it – and he doesn’t can help you get into it with the way in which he performs,” a dissatisfied Vukic instructed AAP.
The Frenchman, who’d already knocked out British hope Dan Evans within the first spherical, met some resistance within the third set however, locked at 4-4 and break level down, Vukic threw in an bold drop shot that floated vast.
Halys then served out to like to seal victory, having cracked 36 winners over the 90 minutes of pretty one-sided motion.
However Vukic, although dissatisfied that he couldn’t arrange a third-round date with younger Italian flyer Jannik Sinner, was nonetheless buoyed by having reached the second spherical of an abroad grand slam for the primary time.
“Sure, plenty of it’s optimistic, you continue learning,” he mentioned.
“I feel general it was superb expertise for me, yeah, a optimistic week for certain.”
-AAP