Experience and wisdom did not serve these ATP and WTA veterans much benefits as they all were dismissed at Australian Open qualies.
Bernard Tomic was ousted 36 16 by Jan Kovalik.
Dan Evans was defeated by James Trotter 46 63 36.
Marco Trungelitti lost to Kamil Majchrzak 63 67 36.
Tim Van Rijthoven lost to Jerome Kym 06 36.
Richard Gasquet fell to D Ajdukovic 67 36.
Pierre Hugues Herbert was defeated by Dane Sweeney 67 26.
Radu Albot got blitzed by Sho Shimabukuro 26 36.
Mikhail Kukushkin was annihilated by Mark Lajal 06 26.
Constant Lestienne was trounced by Vik Kopriva 36 14 ret.
Calvin Hemery was bounced by Ethan Quinn 46 57.
Conversely, veterans Mitchell Krueger, Mackie McDonald, Cristian Garin, Hugo Dellien and Nikolay Basilashvili are all still in contention in qualies.
The same theme also played out on the WTA side…
Sara Errani lost to Brenda Fruhvirtova 06 26.
Ekaterina Makarova lost to Nao Hibino 36 76 16.
Kiki Mladenovic lost to Polina Kudermetova 57 46.
Polina Hercog fell to Robin Montgomery 26 16.
At least Varvara Lepchenko and Petra Martic are still alive in third round qualies.
AO · Australian Open · Mikhail Kukushkin · Richard Gasquet
