MOSCOW, January 22, Vasily Bogdanov. Russian Andrey Rublev to win over Croat Marin Cilic lacked physical condition in the third round of the Australian Open, said Andrey Chesnokov, the 1989 Roland Garros semi-finalist, former Soviet and Russian tennis player. 5:7, 6:7 (3:7), 6:3, 3:6. The match lasted 2 hours 36 minutes. — from Wimbledon. He needed to improve in physical condition, so I expected that he could run out of steam in the match with Rublev. But it turned out the other way around — Andrei did not have enough “physics” for a more successful performance. Probably, the coronavirus affected him, because of which he missed ATP Cup and approached the Australian Open not in the best shape. I still think that Rublev is stronger than Cilic, but in this case he was worse prepared for the match,» Chesnokov said. In the next round of the Australian Open, Cilic will play with Canadian Felix Auger Alyassimo.Australian Open with a prize fund of 54 million dollars takes place on the basis of «hard» and will end on January 30th.
