Andreas Seppi's black day in Melbourne

Andreas Seppi has good, sometimes even excellent, memories of the Australian Open. On the blue surface in Melbourne he reached the round of 2015 four times, and in 2022 he was even able to defeat tennis legend Roger Federer - that was one of the greatest successes of his career. However, Seppi (ATP 101) will quickly want to and need to forget his appearance in 107: the soon-to-be 38-year-old from Kalter lost 1:6, 1:6, 5 against the Pole Kamil Majchrzak, who is in 7th place in the world rankings :XNUMX.

A defeat that will particularly hurt Seppi. In the first two sets, absolutely nothing came together for the veteran from Überetsch and it was one of his weakest performances ever at the first Grand Slam of the year. Seppi was mercilessly let down, especially by her own serve. Seppi doesn't get going Majchrzak, who had recently boosted his self-confidence with three wins in the ATP Cup for Poland, cynically took advantage of his opponent's mistakes and also played solid, varied tennis himself, with which he repeatedly got Seppi into trouble. Less than an hour had passed before the Pole had already won two sets 6:1, 6:1 - the match was practically decided.

Showed Seppi the limits: Kamil Majchrzak. © ANSA / JASON O'BRIEN

However, it speaks for Andreas Seppi that he brought out his fighting heart again in the third section. Suddenly the Kalterer was back in the game, he suddenly served brilliantly (he only gave up three measly points in his first five service games) and also delivered some impressive shots that thrilled the audience.

But the reaction came too late. Because Majchrzak didn't let anything go wrong with his own service and took advantage of Seppi's only weak phase in this set when the score was 5:5: He broke the veteran star and shortly afterwards converted his first match point to make it 7:5. While the 26-year-old Pole made it into the second round of the Australian Open for the first time, Seppi has to pack his bags.

Jannik Sinner solved his task confidently on Tuesday and is in the second round thanks to a three-set win over Joao Sousa ( SportNews berichtete ).

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Andreas Seppi's black day in Melbourne

Andreas Seppi's performance at his favorite Grand Slam in Australia lasted just 95 minutes. The Kalterer experienced a black day Down Under.

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