Australian Open: Petkovic breaks in Melbourne:”The energy was gone.”

Andrea Petkovic broke in after a promising start in the midday heat of Melbourne and dropped out as the penultimate German player at the Australian Open.

In the second round, the 30-year-old from Darmstadt was defeated by Lauren Davis (USA) after 1:40 hours with 6:4,0:6,0:6,0:6.

“The energy was gone after the first movement. The weather certainly didn’t help either,”said Petkovic, who had reached the third round of a Grand Slam tournament at the U. S. Open 2015 for the last time,” I wanted to, but I couldn’t,”said the 98th in the world rankings:” I played well at the beginning, but the last two games were emotionally and mentally powerful.

Petkovic had prevailed against the two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic with 10:8 in the third set. On Wednesday evening she also played doubles with Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Croatia) and lost in three sets.

Your start in the first round of the Fed Cup in Minsk, Belarus (10/11. February) left Petkovic open. She spoke to the new team captain Jens Gerlach,”I didn’t make a full commitment, but I didn’t cancel.”

In the away game for last year’s finalists, Gerlach will have to do without his two top players Julia Görges (Bad Oldesloe) and Angelique Kerber (Kiel). Whether or not he nominates Petkovic at all is still questionable.