Fucsovics advanced in a great battle

The 78th player in the world ranking faced the Argentinian Federico Coria (76th), the only previous meeting between the two was won by the Hungarian at the 2017 challenger tournament in Vicenza.

The 30-year-old Fucsovics is playing in his sixth AO main draw, where he played twice in the round of 16 with Roger Federer, his best result so far. It was a good sign that he won the challenger tournament in Canberra more than a week ago, as well as the fact that the South American opponent could not win a match between the best in Melbourne even after two starts.

Their second match started with one break each, and then the player from Nyíregyháza lost his serve again at 4:5, which cost him his set. In the continuation, the younger brother of the 2004 Roland Garros finalist Guillermo Coria went up 3:0, but Fucsovics overtook him, broke at 4:4, and then sold his fifth game point to win the set.

In the third act of the match, which started in the third hour, against the French, the leader of the Hungarian Davis Cup team, which is preparing for the qualifiers in February, lost his serve at 1:2, and then at 2:5, so the fourth game could come at 2 hours and 35 minutes.

In this, the MTK player equalized from 0:2, and the fifth boom brought 15 (!) ball runs. At 6-6, the Argentinian was two points away from the victory, but Fucsovics equalized again at 3 hours and 40 minutes.

In the last game, at 1:0, Coria called for treatment and then lost her serve (3:0), and this break advantage was maintained, and even at 5:2, she managed to break her rival's serve for the seventh time, thus ending the match, which It took 4 hours and 14 minutes.

Fucsovics - who had a bye in the opening round at the Australian Open last year - will meet the 17th seeded Italian Lorenzo Musetti (19th) or Lloyd Harris (186th) from South Africa among the 64.

As for the doubles matches starting on Wednesday, in the women's doubles Tímea Babos and two-time AO champion Kristina Mladenovic from France will clash with Udvardy Panna and Aliona Bolsova from Spain in the first round, Anna Bondár will start with Greet Minnen from Belgium, partner Dalma Gálfi and the American Bernarda Pera will be.

Results:

1st round (to get to the last 64):

Márton Fucsovics-Federico Coria (Argentine) 4:6, 7:5, 2:6, 7:6 (8-6), 6:2

previously:

women:

Camila Osorio (Colombian)-Udvardy Panna 6:4, 6:1

Bondár Anna-Ana Bogdan (Romanian) 6:2, 2:6, 6:3

Cheng Qin-wen (Chinese, 29) - Dalma Gálfi 6:0, 6:2

(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti/Photo: pixabay)