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Thanasi Kokkinakis admits he’d already accepted defeat in another of his grand slam marathons until he conjured up some late-night resolve to outlast his crestfallen pal Alexei Popyrin at the French Open . In a five-set all-Aussie epic that lasted so long the night session was already finished by the time it concluded at 11.37pm on Tuesday, a weary Kokkinakis joked the nerve-shredding, rollercoaster of a first-round match had taken years off his life.
” This was another epic in the list of Kokkinakis grand slam sagas, which began in Paris in 2015 when he beat compatriot Bernard Tomic in five all the way through to last year when he defeated Stan Wawrinka in another French Open classic that went all the way. But he’s had as many sickeners too, topped by the agonising five hour, 45 minute loss to Andy Murray in Melbourne last year. And there were times against Popyrin when he’d resigned himself to believing the match would go the same way.
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