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Taking all the fighting spirit that has distinguished him throughout his career, Andy Murray managed to avoid a painful exclusion at the US Open by coming back from 0-2 against Yoshihito Nisioka!
Andy Murray is a fighter to the end!
It can be tedious to constantly refer to the 33-year-old Briton’s fighting spirit, yet how else to really describe what he accomplished at his US Open premiere?
After a double operation on his hip, countless months of touring, endless hours of preparation and physical rehabilitation that were exceptionally captured in the documentary “Resurfacing”, on his return after 20 months at Slam, Murray achieved an epic surprise with 3-2 sets . 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-4 And stays “alive” in the tournament!
We lost count of overturns made in a Murray match that avoided his first suspension in the first round of the AO 2008 Grand Slam!
From 0-2 behind and break back in the third set, the atheist Murray came back who saved Nisioka’s match point in the fourth set while meeting a break in the fifth set.
Absolutely nothing “extinguished” his flame of victory.
Certainly his appearance was indulgently lackluster, especially in the first two sets when he made many effortless mistakes, had tragic first serve success rates while his movement on the court was very “tight.”
After falling behind with a break in the third set, the champion’s refusal to lose began to “wake up” within him.
During the remainder of the match, he saved many break points from his rival (Nisioka completed the match on 5/16), serving large balls where the racket was too “heavy”.
On the contrary, Nisioka in the review seemed very “little” throwing away all the great effort he made.
In both tiebreakers he was very anxious and made many mistakes as the constant missed break points “played” in his mind and made it even more difficult for him to focus on the goal.
Not even the break in the fifth set (which he did with a double error by Murray) freed him with Murray returning immediately and closing the match in his favor on the weak serve of the Japanese who was very close but did not get the biggest victory of his career.
For four hours and forty minutes he endured Murray’s “anguished” body waiting for him on Golgotha in preparation to be physically ready for the fight with Felix-Ozer Aliasim after Canada’s difficult victory over Thiago Monteiro with 3-1 sets. 6-3, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6).
Karen Katsanov was also terribly angry!
The 24-year-old Russian had the bad luck to fall on Yannick Sinner in the first round of the tournament, he was 0-2 behind but made a terrible surprise against the young Italian with 3-6, 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-0, 7-6 (4) and achieved a victory that elevates his psychology to the heights in the face of the sequel.
The trio of disorders on the second day of games was completed by Marin Cilic!
The tournament holder in 2014 came back from 0-2 against Dennis Kundla, 6-7 (3), 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, 6-3 And, like Murray and Katshanov, in addition to winning, he gains “confidence points” after such a comeback.
MEN’S DRAW | WOMAN DRAWING | OOP (-7h)
Costas Aitakis
