Eliminated for the second time in a row in the first round of an ATP tournament, Stan Wawrinka is in difficulty at the start of the season. Indeed, if we add his second round to theOpen d’Australie and his quarter at Murray River Open, his results are far from the standards of a twentieth player in the world.
Doha – Wawrinka surprised by Harris
A truncated preparation because of the Covid?
If the Covid was responsible for all his ills … Indeed, the Swiss contracted the virus at the end of December, preventing him from preparing properly for the start of the season as explained by the physical trainer Pierre Paganini : “He fought the Covid for 14 days: during this time he lost his physical form, which is why we also wondered if it was appropriate to go to Melbourne.“
The Swiss finally decided to play in Australia where he started with two complicated Murray River Open wins against Mikhail Kukushkin and Alex Bolt before giving up playing his second match the same day against Jeremy Chardy. His last victory dates back to the first round of the Australian Open against Pedro Sousa before stringing together three defeats in a row. The first in the next round against the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics by having had three match points in the super tie break of the fifth set, against Karen Khachanov in Rotterdam and Lloyd Harris in Doha on Tuesday.
Lloyd loving life 🙌
A big win in the career of @ lloydharris63, who beats Wawrinka 7-6 6-7 7-5 in Doha! pic.twitter.com/PW4SP21EhU
– Tennis TV (@TennisTV) March 9, 2021
Mixed results since taking over the circuit in August
More worrying than the defeat against these three players, who, when they play their best level are able to beat top 20 players, it is the Swiss’s results since the restart that sow doubt in the minds of his fans. His choice to take over from the Prague challenger rather than theUs Open had allowed him to win seven games in a row. But his return to the main circuit was much more complicated with two worrying losses in the first round in Rome in front of Lorenzo Musetti and in the third round of Roland-garros against Hugo Gaston. The Vaudois will wait until the indoor season to achieve his best results with quarter-finals at Saint PETERSBOURG and Paris, by winning in passing his only three victories against top 50 players, Daniel Evans twice and Andrey Rublev. Stan the man will have every intention of doing better next week on the Dubai side before the clay court season at Marbella because he will not make the trip to the United States to compete in the Masters 1000 of Miami.
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