In long exchanges, Menšík lost the first set in a tie-break with a ratio of 4: 7, but he managed the end of the second set better and won the tie-break 8: 6. At the beginning of the third set, the fourth seed Menšík lost with a tournament number one of 0: 2, but he leveled at 2: 2, and since then both players have been in service.
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At the end of the match, Menšík began to have cramps in his thigh muscles. Encouraged by Roland Garros winner Barbora Krejčíková in the auditorium, however, he fought to the last.
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At 5: 5, he did not use breakball and had an increasing problem with movement. At 5: 6, he made the exchange at 30:30, after which he lay down on his stomach on the ground and could not get up due to pain in his left thigh muscle.
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In the end, he succeeded, due to a time delay, he lost the first service and put the second in the network. He also made a double mistake at the match. Then he fell to the ground again and was taken to the locker room in a wheelchair.
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“In the first place, I would like to say that it is not pleasant to win like this,” Kuzuhara said on the tournament’s website. “I mainly hope that Jakub will be fine soon. It was a big battle and if Jakub watches: Thanks,” the 17-year-old American added.
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Menšík thus did not become the second Czech winner of the junior singles in Melbourne. Only Jiří Veselý was the only one to succeed in 2011.
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| Australian Open tennis grand slam tournament in Melbourne (hard surface, subsidy 75 million Australian dollars) |
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| Juniors |
| Singles – Final |
| Kuzuhara (1-USA) – Mensik (4-CZ) 7: 6 (7: 4), 6: 7 (6: 8), 7: 5 |
| Juniors |
| Singles – Final |
| Marcinkova (1-Croatia) – Costoulasova (8-Belg.) 7: 5, 6: 1 |
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