Already on the third day of the competition in Melbourne, the tournament was left without the first seed at the Australian Open.
Last year’s winner of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, Rafael Nadal, was defeated in the second match in Melbourne, and the American Mackenzie McDonald was better than him.
Mackenzie won after 151 minutes on the field, with a score of 3:0 – 6:4, 6:4, 7:5.
The American played great from the beginning of the match, but we should not forget to say that Nadal suffered an injury to his receiver in the second set.
In the first set, McDonald went for all or nothing, and that gave the Spaniard a lot of trouble, because the American Mackenzie immediately took a 2:0 lead, after which he preserved the advantage and took a 1:0 lead.
The continuation of the match was victoriously exciting as the first set, in the second set the same game was seen by Mackenzie, who shocked everyone and took a 2:0 lead.
Even though the injury surfaced in the third set, Nadal put up a great resistance until the very end, when he couldn’t stand the pain anymore and left the victory to his opponent, who was celebrating his biggest victory in his career.
