Alex Klintcharov was in trouble early in his final qualifying match in Brisbane against Tomislav Papac, going down 15-40 in the first game before eventually winning it after the second deuce. He celebrated by winning the next game as well, after Papac had game points at 40-15 and also had the advantage after the first deuce. From there on both players held comfortably, Klintcharov eventually serving out the set after 42 minutes.
I don’t know what went wrong in the second set, but Klintcharov won just 11 points, and it was only in the last game that he actually managed to win more than one point on his own serve. I’m guessing there was at least one rain break in there, because the set supposedly took an hour for just 37 points.
That bagel set them up for a match tie-break to decide the result, and it started well for Klintcharov when he broke Papac to win the first point. What wasn’t so good was that he lost his own second point, but he broke Papac again before losing the first of his next pair of points so that they were level at the first change of ends. Klintcharov then lost his second point before breaking Papac again, and from there they kept losing their first point and winning their second. That carried on until the serve went back to Papac when he was up 8-7, and he ended that sequence by winning both his points to close out the match after an hour and 59 minutes (minus the rain break). The final score was 3-6, 6-0, 10-7.