Reuters
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Matija Pecotic ought to maybe think about giving up his day job after the full-time finance skilled shocked former world No. 8 Jack Sock on his ATP Tour principal draw debut on the Delray Seashore Open on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old Croatian qualifier, who’s a director of Capital Markets for Wexford Actual Property Buyers – 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 as a result of issues following abdomen surgical procedure. He then went on to hitch Harvard Enterprise College, the place he rediscovered his love for the sport.
Pecotic sealed the win in entrance of his boss, who’s a long-time pal of his coach, Dominik Hrbaty.
“I needed to go away work early at this time,” joked Pecotic. “I needed to ship an e-mail to the entire workforce. My boss let me off. I’m going to must ask for one more time off tomorrow.”
The world No. 784, who meets Marcos Giron subsequent, stated the win over Sock within the opening spherical was surprising, however he didn’t method the match pondering he didn’t have an opportunity.
“You’ve bought to be reasonable,” Pecotic stated.
“It is a former prime 10 man with an unimaginable quantity of tennis expertise and an enormous serve. He got here out serving 134 mph on the primary serve. It might be conceited to suppose I’m going to return out and anticipate to win.
“However I figured if I might sink my tooth into the match and work on the 2 or three patterns I ready earlier than, that I’m going to have an opportunity.”