Aussie's 'unbelievable' upset over world No.6

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Australian youngster Alexei Popyrin has secured 1 of the biggest wins of his career, beating satellite No.6 Felix Auger-Aliassime successful the opening circular of the Adelaide International.

The 23-year-old, who has fallen to No.120 successful the satellite pursuing an injury-hit 2022 season, kicked disconnected his archetypal run of the twelvemonth successful the champion imaginable manner successful the 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) triumph implicit the Canadian.

Popyrin was overjoyed with the effect and volition present look America's Marcos Giron successful the adjacent round.

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"It's evidently an unbelievable feeling," helium said of the win.

"I had a really, truly pugnacious play past year. It's the archetypal main gully lucifer of the twelvemonth for me, and to bushed a subordinate of his prime it conscionable shows that the enactment I did successful the off-season is paying disconnected already astatine the commencement of the year.

"I conscionable told myself to enactment positive. I've evidently been successful the apical 100 before, I've won a rubric already and I'm lone 23 truthful I've got plentifulness of time.

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"I was conscionable trying to support my caput down and bash the enactment that I had to bash and yet the clip volition travel wherever the hard enactment volition wage disconnected and evidently contiguous a portion of the hard enactment is paying off."

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Popyrin has made a alteration to his camp, moving with erstwhile Belgian pro Xavier Malisse, and revealed the tweaks the brace person been moving on.

"He's been a large summation to my team," helium said.

"He's conscionable trying to bring a small spot of consistency to my game. I've got the large service and the large forehand, but we conscionable privation to effort and beryllium a small spot much consistent.

"I'm not going to springiness distant each my secrets, truthful hopefully I tin astonishment a fewer radical successful the coming summer."

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