Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev beat Brazilian Thiago Wilde and advanced to the second round of the Australian Open.
The match, which lasted approximately 4 hours, ended with scores of 7:5, 6:4, 3:6, 4:6, 7:6 (10:6).
Rublev made 20 aces, committed a double fault and converted 4 break points out of 23. In the next round, the Russian representative will play with the winner of the match between Christopher Eubanks (USA) and Daniel Taro (Japan).
Rublev’s best result in men’s singles at the Australian Open was reaching the quarter-finals. The Russians reached this stage in 2021 and 2023. Before the start of the Australian Open, Rublev won the ATP tournament in Hong Kong. This title was his 15th individual title at tour level in his professional career. According to this indicator, Marat was equal to Safin.
Daniil Medvedev reached the final of the Australian Open twice (in 2021 and 2022), Karen Khachanov played in the semifinals of the tournament last year, Andrei Rublev played in the quarterfinals twice (2021 and 2023) and Aslan Karatsev made a breakthrough. He took part in the semi-finals of the men’s singles at the Australian Open on the ATP Tour (2021).
Former tennis coach saidIt was in vain why Medvedev did not play in tournaments before the Australian Open.