Jacob Fearnley, the 23-year-old Scottish tennis player, experienced a valuable lesson in his first Australian Open third-round match against second seed Alexander Zverev. Despite putting up a valiant effort, Fearnley was outplayed 6-3, 6-4, 6-4, highlighting the significant gap in experience and consistency between the two players.
It took just 20 minutes into one of the most significant occasions of Jacob Fearnley ’s uncommonly short professional tennis career for the 23-year-old to receive evidence of the soaring level required to consistently trouble the very best tennis players in the world.
In the seven months since Fearnley began to focus on building a professional tennis career after college, he has already experienced milestones that some spend an entire career working towards. Fearnley has won numerous ATP Challenger titles, broken into the top 100 and faced Novak Djokovic on Centre Court at Wimbledon in his first grand slam appearance, winning a set in the process.
Despite the nerves that surely followed him on-court, Fearnley settled quickly with two solid service holds, but at 2-3 two meek unforced errors from the Scotsman immediately followed Zverev’s backhand passing shot winner and the German broke serve. As Fearnley struggled badly to read and return Zverev’s monstrous serve, he ended the set repeatedly stretching out his back before taking a medical timeout before the second set.
From the very start of the second set, he finally began to unfurl those layers of his game. As he eviscerated forehands and moved into the forecourt, Fearnley controlled the majority of the exchanges and he was on level terms with Zverev for much of the match, but the significant difference between them was in the details.
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