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Completed by Nishesh Basavareddy australian open In the second round, a week after his qualifying opponent, his opponent celebrated too early, thinking he had won the race.
Sebastian Ofner walks to the net with a fist pump as he leads 7-1 Leading in third set tie-breakand then realized that the tie-break in the third set of the qualifying round was already 10 points, and he needed to win three more sets to win.
The 20-year-old American player Basava Reddy took advantage of this moment to achieve a historic reversal, winning 4-6 6-4 7-6 (13-11) and advancing to the third round of qualifying.
Basavareddy then defeated British player George Lofhagen in the first set in the final round of qualifying, and then defeated Australian Chris O’Connell to win his first Grand Slam main draw victory.
Basavareddy needed to come back again, winning in five sets, 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-3, and set up a second-round match against No. 15 seed Karen Khachanov, who also won in five sets.
When Basavareddy went on a comeback to beat Offner, he turned to his opponent and celebrated with a “choke” taunt — a move that former Indiana Pacers star Reggie Miller made iconic against New York Knox fan Spike Lee during the 1994 NBA playoffs.
“I know there’s still some time…in super [match] Tie-breakers, you always have a chance, so I always believed,” Basavareddy told the Australian Open website after the win.
“After I win the next point [at 1-7] I was like – usually when this happens you start overthinking, like, ‘Oh, I thought I’d already won the game and moved on to the next round’. Yes, it does give me a little hope.
“I saw he was a little nervous but the ball was old there so every rally was a war and that was my main focus, just to get as many balls in play as possible.”