Danielle Collins celebrated before the match was over: “I was a little embarrassed.”

In any Grand Slam, emotions can be many, and in this case especially for Danielle Collins, former finalist of the AO, who celebrated early in the third set-tiebreak. After losing the first set 6-7 against Karolína Muchová, she recovered to take the second set 6-2, and in a hard third set they had to close the match with a tie-break.

The score was 6-3 with Collins serving, who closed the seventh point with a strong down-the-line backhand that forced his opponent's error. A great joy for the american, who drops her racket and walked to the net thinking the match was over. However, she didn’t know that the tie-break of the last set is played to the best of 10 points, which she took with humour after speaking with the chair umpire.

After the match she said: “I was a little embarrassed. I guess I just never had to play a tie break in the third set in a Grand Slam, so I thought the match was over”. Also, the world No. 11 added that: “I just told myself, ‘Well, at least you didn’t faceplant or something on the floor’.

She also highlighted the importance of public support in Melbourne: I don't think if I was doing anything else people would be waiting outside of my work saying, 'Go Danielle'. I really appreciated it, it's so cool to share that with a lot of the fans.

Ultimately, Collins won by a score of 10-6, and advanced to the third round, in a match that lasted two hours and 50 minutes. The Czech showed great resistance from the back of the field and did not let his rival find a good rhythm, however Collins managed to win the match and continue on his way in Australia. Her next rival? The former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybákina.