James Duckworth (tennis)
James Duckworth ( born January 21, 1992, Sydney ) is an Australian tennis player.
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Life and career
2012: Grand Slam debut and first Tour success
Duckworth played in 2012 for the first time at World Tour level, apart from a lost first round in doubles at the Australian Open 2011. At the tournament in Brisbane, he received a wild card and defeated in his first ATP singles of his career, the Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, which to the time was performed on rank 80 of the ATP rankings, 6-4, 6-4. The second-round match against compatriot Gilles Simon mahouts, set at position two, Duckworth lost however clearly with 3:6, 5:7. A week later he was at the ATP tournament in Sydney again a wild card, but failed this time in the first round of the Finnish Jarkko Nieminen clear 6:2, 6:2. His Grand Slam debut he gave at the Australian Open 2012 again equipped with a wildcard., He met at the beginning of the Estonian qualifier Jurgen Zopp he 6:3, 6:4, 6:4 defeated. In the second round Duckworth met on the set at position 9 Janko Tipsarevic, he retired against in four sets.