Famous former Russian tennis player Andrei Olkhovsky believes that Karen Khachanov played in the Australian Open semi-finals with the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas softer than before.
Khachanov lost to Tsitsipas in four matches – 6:7 (2:7), 4:6, 7:6 (9:7), 3:6. It was his first semi-final at the Australian Open and his second in a Grand Slam.
– As I said, first of all, we should note the good performance of Karen Khachanov at the Australian Open. As for the match: there was probably a little more freedom in the game, rigidity, length. Impose Tsitsipas a game with fairly hard shots from the back line without going to the net. In my opinion, Karen played a little softer than in the previous match, which allowed Tsitsipas to come up quite often and attack.
It’s the Australian semi-final. These are positions, pressures, it is desire. Knowing that you can go further. I think Karen now understands that he can top ten in the game. So I think it all worked together. Somehow it didn’t work out, some exits on the grid played hesitantly – a bit of everything. There is no single factor for which Khachanov lost. All together is important. If we take the end of the third set, then Khachanov played very well in the tie-break. If you show such tennis all the time, of course, you will be one of the strongest tennis players in the world,” Olkhovsky told Gazeta.Ru.
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