At 3-4, Humbert ripped two winners up the line to reach 30/30 on Kyrgios’ serve. The third set followed a similar pattern to the first, with neither player able to find success in their return games.
Kyrgios came to the net behind his serve to level the match. The Aussie stepped inside the baseline on his return and attacked Humbert’s backhand to take his chance and gain the only break of the second set.
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Humbert handed Kyrgios an early opportunity in the second set, as he missed a series of groundstrokes at 1-1. The Aussie struck three drop shots in the 12th game, the first landed in the net and Humbert charged up the court and finished the following points with winners. Two games after saving set point with a powerful first serve, Kyrgios gifted Humbert the first set with poor shot execution. In a first set with limited break opportunities, Humbert claimed the opener with a late break at 6-5. Thiem Cruises, Schwartzman Storms Into Third Round Down Under In his return event last week, Kyrgios claimed back-to-back wins to reach the Murray River Open quarter-finals. Kyrgios improved to 4-1 this year with his win against Humbert. Following the suspension of the ATP Tour, the Aussie decided to miss the remainder of the 2020 season. Kyrgios was making only his second tournament appearance since retiring from his match against Humbert at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC last February. This year, he will face 2020 runner-up Dominic Thiem in his next match. Kyrgios’s reward on that occasion was a meeting with 2009 champion Rafael Nadal. I have just drawn from experience so much on this court… I’ve had so many experiences and I just had to draw on that, put my head down and just try to make him play.” “The one thing I probably have on him right now is experience. “I haven’t played for a year and he has been playing some great tennis last year,” said Kyrgios. In last year’s third round, Kyrgios overcame Karen Khachanov 6-2, 7-6(5), 6-7(6), 6-7(7), 7-6(8) in four hours and 26 minutes. This is the second straight year that Kyrgios has won an epic five-set encounter on John Cain Arena.
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