This week, ATPTour.com begins its annual season-in-review series, looking back at 2022’s best matches, biggest upsets, most dramatic comebacks and more. In this installment, we look back at the best upsets at the Grand Slams, featuring Americans Brandon Holt, Maxime Cressy and Sebastian Korda.
5) Australian Open, R1, Korda d. Norrie 6-3, 6-0, 6-4
More than the result itself, this upset makes the cut for the domination with which Sebastian Korda scored his first Aussie Open win. Playing in his first match of the 2022 season, the American cruised to victory behind immediate breaks in all three sets, dismissing the 12th seed in one hour, 42 minutes.
A positive COVID-19 test forced Korda to withdraw from the Adelaide International I event in the first week of the season, and he made his way to Melbourne only after seven days of hotel isolation. But he quickly made up for lost time by improving to 2-0 in his ATP Head2Head against Cameron Norrie.
Norrie finished the 2021 season in great form, winning the Indian Wells title in October before making his Nitto ATP Finals debut as an alternate. While he would go on to break into the Top 10 of the Pepperstone ATP Rankings and reach the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2022, he did not bring his best tennis to Melbourne — and Korda was in no mood to let him hang around and find it.
Korda celebrated his statement victory in style with a scissor kick, in honour of his coach and father, 1998 Australian Open champion Petr Korda.
“I am just super happy with the way I came out. I stuck with my tactics. They worked really well and [I am] really comfortable on these courts,” the rising star said post-match. “I think even in the tight situations I still stayed with it. I kept being aggressive, using my powerful strokes on these fast courts.”
Then 21, Korda backed up that result with a fifth-set tie-break win against Corentin Moutet before falling to Pablo Carreno Busta in four sets.
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4) Wimbledon, R1, Cressy d. Auger-Aliassime 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-6(9), 7-6(5)
Beginning the year outside the Top 100 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings, Maxime Cressy made waves early in the season in Australia. The Paris-born American reached the Melbourne Summer Set final as a qualifier and later reached the Australian Open fourth round, where he took a set off eventual finalist Daniil Medvedev. But Cressy’s serve-and-volley game is best suited for grass courts, and…
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