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Jiri Lehecka said he had the game to go to higher places after the unheralded Czech stunned Canadian sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime at the Australian Open ...

Then he overtook the match," Lehecka said. "I saw all the media attention over there. It was some kind of a gate to the big tennis. "I'll be super excited. to better rankings, fuller in the tournament. We'll try to prepare as much as we can for what's coming next."

Jiri Lehecka is in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open after wins over Borna Coric, Cameron Norrie, and, on Sunday, Felix Auger-Aliassime. Jiri Lehecka is ...

“That was the thing that helped me the most, and what was the best way to start the year. “At the Next Gen, I finally found my game and I found how to play what I want to play, and how to beat great guys in a big stadium. “Deep inside, me and my team, we believe I have the game and I am able to produce very good tennis, which can take me to higher places. After my match against Zverev, I felt that I was playing the way I wanted to play. Lehecka is only 21 but he has already shown that he was a smart one: he knew when it was time to go back to the Challenger level to finish his tennis education. When we were on our way to Australia, we felt that my tennis level is growing and that my game has the potential to be successful over here.” “I chose to stay on the Challenger tour a bit more because over there it has been an environment in which I knew much more, was feeling more comfortable.” Of course, I’ll try to do my best to recover well and to show my best tennis again in my next match.” In the first tiebreak, I was playing much better. Jiri Lehecka is in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. Time will tell if we’re currently witnessing one of the next big things in tennis or if it’s a player who is just red hot now and will then get back to earth. To be in the quarters, I wouldn’t have believed it if somebody had told me this when I was on my way over here.

Jiri Lehecka stunned Felix Auger-Aliassime on Sunday to surge into the Australian Open quarter-finals in only his fifth Grand Slam appearance as yet another ...

Tsitsipas is the highest seed left in the draw at three following Rafael Nadal and Casper Ruud's early exits and has yet to drop a set. "It's tough to find the words because what I've been through in the last year and now coming back to Australia. "Honestly, it feels amazing," said Lehecka, who has climbed 70 places in the rankings over the past year to 71.

Felix Auger-Aliassime has gone out of the Australian Open after being beaten by world No. 71 Jiri Lehecka in four sets.

Auger-Aliassime whipped a forehand into the tramlines to hand Lehecka three match points. The third set was similarly tense with both players battling to a tie-break. The second set was similarly tight with neither player able to register a break point until Lehecka found a breakthrough when he was already leading 4-3. Two were saved by Auger-Aliassime before Lehecka won it when a long rally went his way. It sounds crazy but it's true and I'm so excited to continue the journey." It is a bitterly disappointing result for Auger-Aliassime who reached the quarter-finals of the Slam last year.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jiri Lehecka of Czechia worked more than three hours to eliminate the sixth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal from the ...

Dabrowski also teamed up with mixed doubles partner Max Purcell of Australia to defeat Jan Zielinski and Yang Zhaoxuan 6-2, 7-5. "I have had to play my best to best everyone here. 59 in the world rankings last summer.

There will not be a showdown between Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff at the Australian Open. Instead, it will be the players who beat them Sunday — reigning ...

In the second set, Swiatek appeared to have gotten herself back on track, going up 3-0. I knew that I had to be aggressive from the first ball because she's a great mover, and she defends really well," Rybakina said. The WTA and ATP tours withheld all points at Wimbledon in 2022 after the All England Club barred players from Russia and Belarus from participating because of the invasion of Ukraine. "So I was trying to just attack her from the first ball, and it really worked well. In the next, Swiatek held two break points at 15-40 but failed to convert either. In the opening game, Swiatek led 40-love but got broken. "It's just one of those days that just didn't go my way and went her way." Until Sunday, both Swiatek and Gauff looked fairly dominant for a week, winning every set they contested. So there will not be a showdown between Swiatek and No. So I'm going to try to chill out a little bit more," Swiatek said. 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova, and two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka vs. No.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jiri Lehecka of Czechia worked more than three hours to eliminate the sixth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal from the ...

2 seeds Casper Ruud on the men’s side and Ons Jabeur on the women’s side were eliminated early. Three of the stars were injured and withdrew before the event began. In the first tiebreak I was playing much better. Notably, he came to the net a lot more, going 33-for-41 on net approaches while Auger-Aliassime won just 11-of-26 his. Dabrowski also teamed up with mixed doubles partner Max Purcell of Australia to defeat Jan Zielinski and Yang Zhaoxuan 6-2, 7-5. And so he came into Melbourne with some momentum and battled through some difficult opponents to make the quarterfinals, where he lost in five sets to Daniil Medvedev (who weeks later, would become world No. I was satisfied with my first set; I served well. Before the main event in 2022, Auger-Aliassime and teammate Denis Shapovalov led Canada to a win at the ATP Cup team event. “I played one incredible shot, forehand down the line which he totally didn't expect to happen. That was evident against Lehecka, who built up a 6-0 lead before Auger-Aliassime could win his first point The Montreal native said he has had a tough week. 11 Cameron Norrie earlier in the week.

Unseeded Czech Jiri Lehecka toppled sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6 6-3 7-6(2) 7-6(3) to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Sunday, ...

"It's tough to find words because of what we've been through in the last year and coming back after losing the first round (in 2022). "All the guys I have beaten here are incredible and I've played my best tennis to show all the cards I have to beat them. But he ran into an inspired Lehecka, who beat 11th seed Cameron Norrie in the previous round.

Jiri Lehecka and Sebastian Korda have both arrived in the quarter final of the Australian Open – and in grand slam terms – for the first time in their young ...

Thankfully the Japanese recovered in the third set, even earning a break point in the opening game. Nishioka in fact earned only 13 in the two bagel sets to Khachanov’s 51. Of course, I’ll try to do my best to recover well and to show my best tennis again in my next match.” In the second tiebreak, it was 50/50. His sisters though chose golf as a sport and both are Australian Open champions in that discipline. Early birthday present in a way.” To be in the quarters, I wouldn’t have believed it if somebody had told me this when I was on my way over here. “Every single time I walk by, I always give (them) a little fist pump,” said Korda. In the first tiebreak, I was playing much better. It sounds crazy but it’s true and I’m so excited to continue the journey.” “All the guys I’ve beaten here are incredible players and I must have played my best tennis and to show all the cards I have to beat them,” Lehecka continued. “The first set was not that bad from my side.

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The Canadian won the first set 6-4 but Jiri Lehecka came from behind to seal the contest three sets to one.

Before his exploits at Melbourne Park, Lehecka’s biggest splash came last February in Rotterdam. “Honestly, it feels amazing,” said Lehecka, who has climbed 70 places in the rankings over the past year to 71. It’s tough to find the words because what I’ve been through in the last year and now coming back to Australia.

When Jiri Lehecka said that about Félix Auger-Aliassime some 48 hours before they took to the court for their first meeting, he sounded like a cocky 21-year-old ...

In the first tiebreak, I was playing much better. In the second tiebreak, it was 50/50. Now he’s a quarterfinalist at the Australian Open, where surely everybody had expected-Auger Aliassime to be for the second year in a row. The highest-seeded player he had defeated on tour was Richmond Hill’s Denis Shapovalov, in Rotterdam last year. [eliminated in bruising straight sets](https://www.thestar.com/sports/tennis/2023/01/22/no-1-swiatek-no-7-gauff-both-lose-at-australian-open.html?utm_source=speakable&utm_medium=push), 6-4, 6-4, by Elena Rybakina on the women’s side. “I played poorly in the two tiebreaks,” said Auger-Aliassime, stating the obvious. But at least the late-blooming Rybakina is the [reigning Wimbledon champion](https://www.thestar.com/sports/tennis/opinion/2022/07/09/kazakhstans-elena-rybakina-was-too-stressed-to-truly-enjoy-her-wimbledon-win-but-they-were-surely-celebrating-in-moscow.html). After the opening set, he relied almost completely on his blistering serve, but it abandoned him in the tiebreaks. That put the wind in his sails and and some chutzpah up his nose as he eyeballed his upcoming encounter with Auger-Aliassime, the sixth seed, who is just a year older, at 22, but has miles of majors experience compared to the 71st-ranked Lehecka. Even in the two sets that were tiebreaks, I was winning barely any points on the return. He had zero titles on the tour circuit. Although, to be more accurate, Lehecka unspooled a sharp, nervy effort, duplicating Auger-Aliassime’s power from the baseline, paramount in the longer rallies — clearly the young Czech’s strategy — and moving adroitly forward to pressure the Canadian’s service game.

A confident Jiri Lehecka has warned Stephanos Tsitsipas he wants revenge and knows how to play against him ahead of their Australian Open quarter-final on ...

"(But) I know how to play against him. He will feel that I can get him under the pressure." It was my first time playing all these big players, great names. I mean, he's number four in the world. I know that he will remember how we played last year in Rotterdam. "I will go for that revenge, for sure.

A confident Jiri Lehecka has warned Stephanos Tsitsipas he wants revenge and knows how to play against him ahead of their Australian Open quarter-final on ...

He will feel that I can get him under the pressure." "(But) I know how to play against him. It was my first time playing all these big players, great names. I mean, he's number four in the world. I know that he will remember how we played last year in Rotterdam. "I will go for that revenge, for sure.

Jiri Lehecka has already ousted the sixth, 11th and 21st seeds in Melbourne; Stefanos Tsitsipas will be favoured in Tuesday's quarterfinal, but the Czech ...

I grew up in the generation when both Davis Cups for Czech Republic were won," Lehecka said. "I mean for me it was always easy. It was some kind of a gate to the big tennis. Yeah, I'm sure for those reasons he will be a good player in the future." "I saw all the media attention over there. "Young player, not a lot of years on the tour already.

Rising Czech star Jiri Lehecka says that he has started to take his tennis a little bit more seriously of late. Lehecka feels that he has been able to ...