{"id":411553,"date":"2026-01-14T04:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411553\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:42:10","slug":"sebastian-ofner-mistakenly-celebrates-win-over-nishesh-basavareddy-forgets-the-score-and-loses-match-tiebreak-latest-tennis-news-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411553\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Ofner mistakenly celebrates win over Nishesh Basavareddy, forgets the score and loses match tiebreak, latest tennis news, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Safe to say Sebastian Ofner won\u2019t be forgetting the rules of tennis tiebreaks any time soon.<\/p>\n

The former world No.37 suffered a brutal exit from Australian Open qualifying when he celebrated early in a match tiebreak, thinking he had won, but then collapsed to be knocked out of the tournament.<\/p>\n

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After splitting the opening two sets 4-6 6-4 against America\u2019s Nishesh Basavareddy, a 6-6 third set sent the players into a 10-point match tiebreak.<\/p>\n

But Ofner believed it was a normal seven-point tiebreak and thus celebrated when he won the point to lead 7-1.<\/p>\n

Basavareddy took full advantage of his opponent\u2019s mistake, winning eight of the next nine points and then clinching the tiebreak 13-11.<\/p>\n

He celebrated advancing to the final round of qualifying by delivering a \u2018choke\u2019 celebration, seemingly aimed at Ofner.<\/p>\n

The early celebration backfired terribly for Sebastian Ofner.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n

Basavareddy, 20, used a wildcard to enter the Australian Open last year and took the first set off Novak Djokovic before losing in four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Safe to say Sebastian Ofner won\u2019t be forgetting the rules of tennis tiebreaks any time soon. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-411553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}