“I’m going to miss it for sure. I’m going to miss it big time. Tennis Association officials.
Stan Wawrinka’s Grand Slam career ended Monday when the 2016 U.S. Open champion lost 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-0 to Matteo Berrettini. Wawrinka won the last of his three major titles in Flushing Meadows when he beat Novak Djokovic in the final 10 years ago. At 41, he was given a wild card into the event in what he has said will be his final season before retiring.
I love the game,” Wawrinka said before he was honored on the court by U.S.
Stan Wawrinka’s Grand Slam career ended Monday when the 2016 U.S. Open champion lost 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-0 to Matteo Berrettini.
The match appeared remarkably similar to the meeting between the same players at Wimbledon, when Berrettini won a four-setter, with each going to a tiebreaker. Wawrinka made his 18th U.S. Open appearance. He initially thought he wouldn’t get a goodbye to the tournament when the USTA gave its final men’s singles wild card to American Patrick Kypson, who is ranked No. Wawrinka had already come to New York, so decided to return home last Monday to Switzerland. Berrettini had the fans cheering him again after the match ended, when he clapped his hand onto his racket and pointed it toward Wawrinka.
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When Kypson withdrew with an injury, Wawrinka learned Wednesday the wild card would be given to him, so he returned to New York, a city he said he learned to love. “I found a way to play my best tennis here,” he said. “Delighted to share the court against this legend of our sport once again,” Berrettini said.
