Frenchman Arthur Cazaux entered the Australian Open ranked 122, contemporary off the Challenger Tour and a title on the Open Nouvelle-Calédonie. However after one week of play in Melbourne, he not solely received his first Main event match win, but in addition took down 8-seeded Holger Rune. He would comply with that up with a victory in opposition to 28-seeded Tallon Griekspoor. He’ll face one other seed in Hubert Hurkacz subsequent. In his final two matches, Cazaux has solely dropped one set mixed.
Cazaux has superior behind the power of his serve. In his win in opposition to Rune, he fired 18 aces and received 82 % of his first serve factors. He has 43 aces to date within the event.
He enters the match in opposition to the 9 seed with a wave of confidence. “I knew I might play at this sort of degree, however I’ve by no means proved it in an actual match. I used to be assured in myself however to show it within the first spherical gave me extra confidence and now I do know I can beat these prime gamers, throughout actual matches.”
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After his work in Melbourne to date, Cazaux has seen his rating soar to 83rd on the earth. He has moved up almost 300 spots within the rankings within the final yr. A yr in the past right now, he was ranked world no. 382.
If he hopes to proceed his journey, he might want to conquer one other massive server in Hurkacz, who has popped serves over 150 mph. The winner of that match will face the winner of the Daniil Medvedev-Nuno Borges round-of-16 match.