{"id":430056,"date":"2026-01-22T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430056\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:56:12","slug":"maddison-inglis-wins-epic-australian-open-second-round-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430056\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddison Inglis wins epic Australian Open second-round match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowing a 10-point tiebreak was going to decide her Australian Open fate, Maddison Inglis chose the simplest approach.<\/p>\n

Take it one point at a time.<\/p>\n

It was always going to be the best avenue to victory against the vastly experienced Laura Siegemund, given fatigue and nerves had set in after more than 3 hours on court.<\/p>\n

“Anything can happen in 10-pointers,” Inglis said about the final-set tiebreak.<\/p>\n

“I just tried to focus on one point at a time. I got a good lead, which was great. I had a little bit of a buffer if I got a little bit nervous at the end.<\/p>\n

“But I was really proud how I managed myself in the tiebreak. I wanted it so bad. I was nervous.”<\/p>\n

\"Maddison<\/p>\n

Maddison Inglis forced a 10-point tiebreak in the third set. (Getty Images: Darrian Traynor)<\/p>\n

Having established a 9-5 lead in the tiebreak, Inglis found herself with four match points.<\/p>\n

The massive crowd \u2014 which included Inglis’s fiance and fellow professional Jason Kubler \u2014 sensed an Australian win was only moments away; however, Siegemund refused to give up.<\/p>\n

She saved two of the match points, but it was as close as she could get to the Australian qualifier.<\/p>\n

Serving at 9-7, Inglis finally sealed the win, landing an overhead backhand volley before collapsing to the court as the emotion of the occasion took hold.<\/p>\n

“She [Siegemund] would have been nervous, too,” said Inglis, as she reflected on her 6-4, 6-7 (3\/7), 7-6 (10\/7) second-round win.<\/p>\n

“I knew she wasn’t going to give it to me, she’s such a great competitor. I had to work for it. I’m really grateful it went my way.”<\/p>\n

Inglis had served for the match in the second set, only to be broken by Siegmund, who would eventually dominate the tiebreak that ensued.<\/p>\n

In the third set, it was the German who had the chance to close out victory when she served at 5-4, but Inglis showed impressive grit to break her 37-year-old opponent.<\/p>\n

It swung momentum the way of the Western Australian before she later took command in the deciding 10-point tiebreak.<\/p>\n

“I just kind of kept fighting,” Inglis said.<\/p>\n

“Everyone around me said, ‘Keep believing and just back yourself’. They really helped me get to this stage.”<\/p>\n

\"Maddison<\/p>\n

Maddison Inglis has reached the Australian Open third round for the second time. (AAP: Lukas Coch)<\/p>\n

Inglis, ranked 168 in the world, is the last Australian in the women’s draw and she will next meet 16th seed Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n

Six began the second round, but only one was left standing.<\/p>\n

It will be Inglis’s second appearance in the third round at Melbourne Park, following her run to the last 32 in 2022.<\/p>\n

That remains the highlight of her career, which has included some cruel setbacks, a fact she acknowledged in the afterglow of the triumph over Siegemund.<\/p>\n

“Tennis is brutal,” she said.<\/p>\n

“You have some incredible moments and some really, really hard ones.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knowing a 10-point tiebreak was going to decide her Australian Open fate, Maddison Inglis chose the simplest approach.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,81,6571,225291,219485,188599,171805,85,747,184785],"class_list":["post-430056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-australian-open","tag-laura-siegemund","tag-maddison-inglis","tag-melbourne-park","tag-second-round","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430056","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=430056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}