Maya Joint looked awfully cool and composed in her 7-6 (3), 6-4 win over American Sofia Kenin in the first round of the Adelaide International.<\/p>\n
But looks can be deceiving.<\/p>\n
Asked during her on-court interview after the match if she’s as composed in her everyday life as she is on the court, she gave a refreshingly honest answer.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t think I was very composed,” she said with a laugh. “No, I’m not very calm. I’m not a calm person.”<\/p>\n
She was then asked what kinds of things bug her away from the tennis court.<\/p>\n
“A lot of things,” the 19-year-old Australian said, to more laughs from the hometown crowd. “People walking slowly in front of me. I play a lot of cards with my coach — when he wins, that makes me pretty annoyed.”<\/p>\n
Joint didn’t have much to be annoyed about on Tuesday evening, as she defeated Kenin for the third time in three tries in front of a packed crowd. Joint had 25 winners to just 14 unforced errors, and came from 4-1 down in the second to win in straights.<\/p>\n
It was Joint’s first win of the season following two group-stage losses at the United Cup last week.<\/p>\n
“I was a bit nervous,” the World No. 32 admitted after the match. “I really wanted to get my first win of the season. I was making a couple unforced errors. I was struggling a little bit on my return. She was also hitting her spots on her serve, playing pretty good tennis today. I’m just glad I was able to find a way.”<\/p>\n
Next up for Joint is countrywoman Ajla Tomljanovic, who advanced after fifth-seeded Clara Tauson withdrew before the start of the second set with a lower back injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They’ve played three times before, with Tomljanovic winning two of them.<\/p>\n
The winner of that match will play third-seeded Mirra Andreeva in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maya Joint looked awfully cool and composed in her 7-6 (3), 6-4 win over American Sofia Kenin in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-405225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}