Australian Open 2022 - Danielle Collins fights back to beat Claura Tauson; Simona Halep eases into fourth round

Danielle Collins comes from a set and 3-1 down to produce a fine win over Denmark’s Claura Tauson 4-6 6-4 7-5 on Rod Laver Arena. The No 27’s powerful brand of tennis saw her overcome the Danish teenager in two hours and 35 minutes. Ad/> The 2019 Australian Open semi-finalist will play in the fourth round for only the second time in her career.

Roland-GarrosSerena has 'excellent' chance of French Open glory — Wilander, plus Evert reaction04/06/2021 AT 16:37 Collins said on-court afterwards: «A long battle today but super happy to be able to pull it out especially with how the first set ended. »In moments I was not playing my best tennis so I was trying to figure out solutions to come up with some good stuff against Clara because I think she was playing really well and at an incredibly high level. «We are going to see some really good results from her moving forward.

It’s going to be exciting.» Tauson looked nervous at the start and went 4-1 down against her experienced opponent, but unforced errors began to creep into the American’s game and the Dane capitalised by reeling off five games in a row. Collins held her opening service game in the second set, but Tauson would go a break up to make it 3-1, converting her second break point. Collins, however, almost replicated what Tauson did in the first set by winning five of the next six games to set up a third set decider.