Gold Coast expertise Hayden Jones navigated difficult circumstances to file his first main-draw win within the Wimbledon boys’ singles competitors.
London, Nice Britain, 8 July 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Hayden Jones survived a tricky first-round project, in addition to difficult circumstances, to attain his first-ever win as we speak on the prestigious All England Membership.
The 17-year-old from the Gold Coast caught a 7.45am bus to the venue this morning, to offer himself loads of time to arrange for his first-round match within the Wimbledon 2024 boys’ singles competitors.
The match, which was scheduled to start at 11am, didn’t end till after 7pm. Gamers spent simply over two hours on courtroom, with the remainder of the time relegated to ready in between intermittent rain.
“It was tremendous powerful to be sincere, simply ready round all day and being prepared,” Jones mentioned after lastly finishing a hard-fought 7-6(8) 1-6 6-3 victory towards American Trevor Svajda.
“I simply needed to adapt and be okay with what I might management.”
Throughout one of many a number of rain delays all through the match, Australian No.1 Alex de Minaur provided some invaluable recommendation to Jones.
“He was chatting with me and saying ‘you’ve acquired to lock it down, mate’ and was simply giving me some suggestions,” the seventh-seeded Jones associated.
“I feel it’s tremendous wonderful how the Australian tennis gamers take care of the youthful ones. They see how we’re going and present us the appropriate route.
“Alex has really been actually good to me. He gave us some tickets to his participant’s field on the French Open and was asking me to heat him up (earlier than his matches there).”
Jones, who’s the highest-seeded Australian in a Wimbledon boys’ singles draw since a 17-year-old De Minaur superior to the 2016 closing, additionally believes his expertise of taking part in junior tournaments in Australia, the place he’d typically play as much as three matches a day, held him in good stead for coping with his lengthy day.
“You’d begin at 7am after which play your final match at 5.30pm, so I feel that helped me,” he mentioned.
The world No.10 was relieved to breakthrough for a primary win at Wimbledon, having misplaced within the opening spherical in his two earlier appearances on the grass-court Grand Slam.
“I certified right here once I was 15 and final 12 months I had too many expectations on myself,” he mentioned. “I performed a horrendous match and I used to be tremendous upset with how I carried out and the place my mentality was at.”
Together with his focus now on “being relentless”, Jones believes he can problem for the title this week.
“My purpose is to win it,” declared Jones, a victor in 30 of his 36 matches on the ITF junior tour thus far this season.
“I need to play the perfect gamers and Trevor’s a brilliant good participant, he acquired in off his ATP rating which says sufficient about him. However deliver on the great gamers, I need to take them down and do it the powerful means.”
Jones can also be contesting the boys’ doubles competitors alongside compatriot Pavle Marinkov, whose singles marketing campaign ended yesterday with a first-round loss to fourth seed and Roland Garros 2024 boys’ singles finalist Tomasz Berkieta.
Jones’ youthful sister, 16-year-old Emerson, is carrying Australian hopes within the ladies’ singles competitors.
She is the third seed, making her the highest-seeded Australian in a Wimbledon ladies’ singles draw since 1998 (when an 18-year-old Evie Dominikovic and 15-year-old Jelena Dokic have been the highest two seeds).
Aussies in motion – Wimbledon
RESULTS
Boys’ singles, first spherical
[7] Hayden Jones (AUS) d Trevor Svajda (USA) 7-6(8) 1-6 6-3
[4] Tomasz Berkieta (POL) d Pavle Marinkov (AUS) 7-6(4) 6-2
COMING UP
Boys’ singles, second spherical
[7] Hayden Jones (AUS) v Mees Rottgering (NED)
Ladies’ singles, first spherical
[3] Emerson Jones (AUS) v [Q] Shiho Tsujioka (JPN)
Boys’ doubles, first spherical
Hayden Jones (AUS)/Pavle Marinkov (AUS) v [5] Marko Maksimovic (SRB)/Theo Papamalamis (FRA)
Ladies’ doubles, first spherical
[6] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Vittoria Paganetti (ITA) v Eliska Tichackova (CZE)/Lucie Urbanova (CZE)
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