{"id":3332,"date":"2017-07-06T23:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T03:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2017-07-06T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T03:08:34","slug":"sebastian-ofner-upsets-american-jack-sock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2017\/07\/06\/sebastian-ofner-upsets-american-jack-sock\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Ofner upsets American Jack Sock at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

17th seed Jack Sock was upset Thursday after falling to 217th ranked Sebastian Ofner of Austria 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-2. 21 year old Ofner who mainly plays futures, and challengers, recorded his first tour level win of any kind when he defeated Thomaz Bellucci on Tuesday. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ofner, unknown to many has the tennis world talking about him now after he\u2019s advanced to the third round seemingly out of nowhere. When he took the court last week during the qualifying rounds it was the first time he\u2019s even appeared at a grand slam. In the last round of qualifying he defeated Great Britain\u2019s Jay Clarke after coming back down 2 sets to 0. The live rankings have Ofner at a career high 150 with a chance to go even higher if he can get past Alexander Zverev in the 3rd round on Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n

Ofner started his season playing futures (the lowest level of professional tennis) in cities like Heraklion, Greece, and Antalya, Turkey. His first big breakthrough came at a challenger in Mestre, Italy where he reached the final before falling to Joao Domingues of Portugal. After making the finals in Mestre his ranking rose 40 spots to 225 which helped him get to the point where he was ranked high enough to play Wimbledon qualifying. This same week last year Ofner was playing a $10,000 future event in Telfs, Austria and was ranked 571.<\/span><\/p>\n

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