AUSTRALIAN OPEN

January 21, 2023

Ben McLachlan

Yoshihito Nishioka

Press Conference

AREVALO-ROJER/McLachlan-Nishioka

7-6, 6-4

THE MODERATOR: Welcome to the press conference of Ben McLachlan and Yoshihito Nishioka. Bad luck today in your doubles. Can you just take us through the match and what happened out there?

BEN McLACHLAN: Yeah, it was a close match. We had our chances, in the first set especially. Yeah, they're a tough team. And, yeah, they play some good tennis in the big moments and the tiebreak. That was the difference.

Q. Ben, obviously you had a tough one for you guys today, but I'm just curious, obviously Yoshi has had a great run here in the tournament and really over the past several months. I'm just curious what you've seen in him growing over the past several months, and what do you think about that?

BEN McLACHLAN: He is just the man. He is playing really well (smiling). No, it's fun to watch him play. I always enjoy watching him play. I mean, the guy doesn't miss. He is just so quick.

Yeah, it was really fun to play with him too. He competed hard today. Yeah, really thankful for him. He still in the singles, but, yeah, he really gave it all his today. That was cool.