In a grueling contest that electrified the local crowd on Court 6, Australian wildcard James Duckworth overcame a mid-match collapse to defeat Croatian lucky loser Dino Prizmic 7-6 (4), 3-6, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday night. The victory, which lasted four hours and 22 minutes, marks the sixth time in his career that the 33-year-old Duckworth has reached the second round in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Currently ranked number 88 in the world, Duckworth now faces the ultimate challenge in the round of 64: a meeting with world number 2 and defending champion Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n
Sinner leads their professional head-to-head 2-1, with their last official encounter occurring in 2021. For Duckworth, this second-round match represents an opportunity to reach the third round of the Australian Open for the first time in his 16 appearances at the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a grueling contest that electrified the local crowd on Court 6, Australian wildcard James Duckworth overcame a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}