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A last-minute stand-in at Wimbledon qualifying, Australian Alex Bolt has stormed all the way into the men’s main draw, sealed by an “unreal” comeback triumph from match-point down in his final round. The green-and-gold challenge was further boosted on Thursday as Olivia Gadecki also made it into the big show at SW19 next week by winning her third-round qualifier to ensure there’ll be 13 Aussies at the grass-court grand slam.
“I let opportunities in the first set slip and I kinda let that take control of my mind for the next hour and a bit, and then he got the second set as well playing really good tennis. I kept hanging around, managed to turn the tides ... yeah, unreal.” Asked where his triumph rated in his career, Bolt smiled it was in the top two, maybe just behind his second-round Australian Open triumph over world-class French operator Gilles Simon in 2019 when he saved four match points.
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