Tomáš Macháč is already being talked about in the world of tennis not only in connection with his attractive, often even exhibition performances, his ability to torment the biggest favorite and his gift of winning the favor of otherwise impartial fans. His distinctive game outfit is also attracting more and more attention.
After last year’s rise, the twenty-three-year-old Macháč is becoming more and more firmly established in the broader world elite.
He succeeded in the Australian Open, where he brilliantly ran away with the star American Frances Tiafoe, who in the Netflix documentary series “Breakpoint” likes and often talks about his immodest ambitions to rule the entire world of tennis.
The Czech won the third round of the Grand Slam for the first time in Melbourne and continues his confident performances even now at the tournament in Marseille.
After two valuable wins over strong opponents, he will play the third quarterfinal of his career on Friday.
His entertaining game and great potential have been discussed in the tennis world for many months, but now the story of the Czech sculler is being added to the story of a fashion superstructure.
Macháč likes to play in atypically short shorts, which has not escaped the eyes of tennis experts and fans.
“Tomáš Macháč definitely has the shortest shorts on the circuit,” Portuguese journalist José Morgado shared his photo on the X social network.
Subsequently, a discussion broke out, from which it emerged that the only one who could currently compete with the native of Beroun in this “discipline” is the young Dane Holger Rune, another fan of shorter shorts.
One of the discussants aptly pointed out that Macháč brings back to the game the sports fashion from the 70s of the last century, when Björn Borg, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors or John McEnroe, for example, raced around the court in extremely high-cut shorts.
However, the Czech player would understandably not attract similar attention to himself if he did not play great tennis.
In Marseille, he deepened the already painful depression of the famous Briton Andy Murray.
He eliminated the three-time Grand Slam winner in two sets and extended his black streak, which already includes six competitive defeats in a row.
“Another horrible loss for Andy Murray,” headlined the online daily Tennis365, noting how sadly and relatively long the reigning Sir waved to the crowd in Marseille as he left the venue.
“The easiest thing for me would be to end my career. But I don’t want to because I love tennis. It’s not easy for me, but no series of defeats will change what I achieved when I was fit and had two hips. But when you lose , you don’t have self-confidence,” said the owner of two Olympic gold medals.
Not even the respectful words of his Czech conqueror could comfort him.
“It’s a great honor to share the court with such a legend, the win is a bonus for me. We all remember how many times Andy won even when he faced match points. I had to play as if I had no advantage. Maximum concentration led me to victory,” he said The 66th player in the world ranking, who will surely move up a few places again in the new edition.
Especially when, a day later, he allowed just five games to world number 27 Italian Lorenzo Musetti.
The Czech tennis player advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP tournament for the third time in his career, last year he succeeded in Houston and Stockholm.
For the first semi-final of his career, on Friday he will fight either against defending champion Hubert Hurkacz from Poland, or against his challenger Alexander Ševčenko, last season a Russian, now a representative of Kazakhstan.
