The fans inside Rod Laver Arena lauded both players\u2019 clean ball striking, but it was Sesko\u2019s ability to hold his nerve in the big moments that stood out, winning 57 per cent of break points to the American\u2019s 38 per cent.<\/p>\n
The Slovenian\u2019s dominance at the net was another, winning 77 per cent of his net points to Hance\u2019s 59 per cent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say \u00a0that’s the point of my game,\u201d Sesko said about his front-footed approach. \u201cI really like to go forward a lot because I play an aggressive style, and I would say I have a pretty good volley.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is paying off in the matches.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hailing from Hrastnik, a small town in central Slovenia of about 10,000 people, Sesko started playing tennis at a local club with his father, who was a table tennis player.<\/p>\n
He was in red-hot form on his way to the final, besting second seed Luis Miguel in the quarterfinals and third seed Ryo Tabata in the final four.<\/p>\n
The talented youngster said the plan before the season was to \u201cplay mostly professional tournaments this year\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut after winning a Grand Slam, I dunno, we will need to make a new plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And how will he celebrate his victory?<\/p>\n
He has a flight booked Sunday night to join his country\u2019s Davis Cup team ahead of Friday\u2019s tie against Turkiye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fans inside Rod Laver Arena lauded both players\u2019 clean ball striking, but it was Sesko\u2019s ability to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-268385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}