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Stan Wawrinka feels the pain as comeback ends in defeat

January 19, 2018 17:08·
Berankis had no answers as Wawrinka took control during the early stages in Melbourne

Berankis had no answers as Wawrinka took control during the early stages in Melbourne

Stan Wawrinka was sent tumbling out of the Australian Open in the second round, in a painful exit to Tennys Sandgren.

In only his second match back since Wimbledon a year ago - and recovering from surgery to his left knee - Wawrinka looked troubled from midway through the first set, unable to hit his marks and appearing somewhat hampered with his movement in the evening heat, which hovered around 34 degrees Celsius for much of the match.

"I need to take what I can to be positive with everything, with the big picture". "I think I had to be at least decent at the sport, I couldn't be awful". 'If I look really back, I only had surgery five months ago, five months and three days.

World number 97 Sandgren, who had won only one grand slam singles match compared to the three grand slam titles Wawrinka owns, produced a rock-solid display to claim the biggest scalp of his career, offering up only two break points.

He made the semi-finals at last year's Australian Open where he lost to eventual champion Roger Federer in five sets.

It was a confidence booster for the 2014 Melbourne Park champion, who had a troubled lead-in to the year's opening Grand Slam, pulling out of an exhibition event in Abu Dhabi on his way to Australia.

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He had not played a competitive match prior to his first round Open win over Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis, having only chose to take part last weekend.

"My plan is to leave here and go back to practice, especially fitness-wise at the beginning", Wawrinka said of his future plans.

"I know I have a lot of work to do". It's going to be tough.

Novak Djokovic dropped his first set to Gael Monfils, but stormed back to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.

"There are certain days where you just have to, as a tournament supervisor, recognize that you might need to give players few extra hours", he said.

Now, with world number 94 Maximilian Marterer of Germany next to play, he has a great chance to reach the fourth round and is already guaranteed his biggest pay cheque of A$142,500 ($114,000) for reaching the third round. "All those good things".

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