A heaping helping of bad luck! Grand Slam winner injured on his match point

He knows what it’s like to win a Grand Slam tournament. Stan Wawrinka is one of the most experienced players on the ATP circuit. He just had a very unpleasant end to a match in France. What happened and how is the successful Swiss’s career going?

Stan Wawrinka is one of the most experienced tennis players. He is 38 years old and he is easily the oldest tennis player in the elite world 100 rankings.

Despite a foot injury and subsequent surgeries that kept him out of top tennis for more than a year, the Lausanne native is clawing his way back up. He started this year ranked 148th, but is currently on the edge of the elite 50.

A solid result at the ATP 250 tournament in Metis may have helped Wawrinka’s journey upwards. Unfortunately, the Swiss will not reach it, although he was close to advancing to the quarterfinals.

Eight-round match

The incriminated match pitted the Swiss veteran against home tennis player Luca Van Assche. Wawrinka won the first set thanks to one break at 6:3.

In the second one, the players lost their serves right at the beginning of the set, which then reached a shortened game. The tiebreak started better for Wawrinka, who had a slight advantage from the beginning and went to serve at 6:4, i.e. with two match points.

However, at this crucial moment, he miscalculated the exchange and twisted his ankle. The set was still played, but the French tennis player was the winner.

The former world number three then understandably called off the match and will end the 2023 season on the edge of the fifth and sixth ten of the ATP rankings.

Conclusion

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Let’s hope Wawrinka stays on the circuit for a while and wish him to fulfill his big goal of one more tournament victory.

Sources: ATP, X