Jacob Fearnley hopes to build on a “good week” at Wimbledon despite a second-round loss to Jaume Munar.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Scot rose to prominence two years ago when he played Novak Djokovic on Centre Court and was ranked just outside the top 50 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
A slide down the rankings to 159 meant he needed a wild card to get into the main draw this time and he started with a five-set win against American Alex Michelsen.<\/p>\n
However, Fearnley could not back it up against 44th-ranked Spaniard Munar, taking just two of his 10 break points in a 6-4 7-6 (3) 6-4 defeat on Court 12.<\/p>\n
“Still it was a good week,” said Fearnley. “Obviously I wanted to win a match.<\/p>\n
“I can definitely be positive and try and take the positives even from today. I feel like the way I played even the last few weeks has been progress.<\/p>\n
“I’m obviously going to be disappointed and learn from today. I’m going to use whatever experiences I had this week and in the last few weeks to try and hopefully kick on these next few months.”<\/p>\n
During a long second set, Fearnley lost an early break and failed to convert four break points at 4-4, while Munar served well in the big moments.<\/p>\n
“Obviously all matches you lose, especially if they’re close, you look back and you realise that there was some chances that you probably missed,” added Fearnley.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t expecting him to serve that big. I think he was consistently hitting over 135mph and hitting spots. Credit to him.<\/p>\n
“The way he plays, he just makes a lot of balls, and he’s extremely good at that. I made a few big errors in big moments. But I’m OK with that to a certain extent. I have to go for it.<\/p>\n
“Obviously the first game in the third set was just a complete concentration lapse, and that cost me big time.”<\/p>\n
Fearnley admitted his opening five-set match may have affected him physically, saying: “I definitely did feel more tired.<\/p>\n
“Obviously the way he plays, he does make the rallies a little bit more physical than perhaps Michelsen would have done. I think that court was a little bit slower, as well. Obviously crowd involved, playing on a slightly bigger court, all kind of zaps your energy a little bit more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Fearnley hopes to build on a “good week” at Wimbledon despite a second-round loss to Jaume Munar.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670959","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\/670959","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=670959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}