The offspring of past heroes Tracy Austin and Hana Mandlikova are making their own U.S. Open recollections.
Brandon Holt, Austin’s child, knocked off No. 10-seed Taylor Fritz, the highest level Ameman, in four sets, 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-1), 6-3, 6-4, subsequent to progressing through the passing competition into his most memorable Grand Slam fundamental draw.
“I’m extremely glad that it wound up turning out well for me since I might have certainly been losing in that fourth set, beginning a fifth set if a couple of focuses could have gone an alternate way,”said Holt, who came into the first-round match positioned 201 spots behind the world No. 12. “I think Taylor raised his game a great deal. He began playing all around well. I was playing all around well, too. It was a truly fun counterpart for me. … I’m extremely, satisfied to receive in return.
Holt says he was unable to recollect what counsel Austin, the 1979 and 1981 U.S. Open ladies’ hero, gave him before the match, yet that it was presumably to have a good time and appreciate it.
Austin likewise claimed a triumph over Kathy May, Fritz’s mom, from a competition in Philadelphia in 1978.
Mandlikova’s little girl, Elizabeth Mandlik, got a trump card into the competition and edged Tamara Zidansek 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4.
Mandlikova, who was brought up in the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) and presently lives in Delray Beach, Florida, won the 1985 U.S. Open for one of her four Grand Slam singles titles.
Sebastian Korda, the child of previous Czech tennis star Petr Korda, likewise won his first-round match on Monday, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, 6-1. Petr Korda, who won the 1998 Australian Open and was positioned as high as No. 2 on the planet, likewise has two little girls — Jessica and Nelly — who are top golf players in the LPGA.
