Reuters
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Matija Pecotic ought to maybe take into account giving up his day job after the full-time finance skilled shocked former world No. 8 Jack Sock on his ATP Tour predominant draw debut on the Delray Seaside Open on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old Croatian qualifier, who’s a director of Capital Markets for Wexford Actual Property Traders – an affiliate of the $4 billion funding agency Wexford Capital – rallied to beat Sock 4-6 6-2 6-2.
Pecotic reached a career-high rating of No. 206 in 2015 however briefly give up the game attributable to problems following abdomen surgical procedure. He then went on to hitch Harvard Enterprise Faculty, the place he rediscovered his love for the sport.
Pecotic sealed the win in entrance of his boss, who’s a long-time good friend of his coach, Dominik Hrbaty.
“I needed to depart work early at present,” joked Pecotic. “I needed to ship an e-mail to the entire staff. My boss let me off. I’m going to should ask for one more time without work tomorrow.”
The world No. 784, who meets Marcos Giron subsequent, mentioned the win over Sock within the opening spherical was sudden, however he didn’t strategy the match considering he didn’t have an opportunity.
“You’ve obtained to be sensible,” Pecotic mentioned.
“It is a former high 10 man with an unbelievable quantity of tennis expertise and an enormous serve. He got here out serving 134 mph on the primary serve. It will be smug to suppose I’m going to return out and count on to win.
“However I figured if I might sink my enamel into the match and work on the 2 or three patterns I ready earlier than, that I’m going to have an opportunity.”
