Watch the Australian Open with live streams of every court at 9Now. Click here to start watching!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The Aussie, who's ranked 121st in the world, was simply a class above his German opponent on Court Seven at Melbourne Park, winning 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.<\/p>\n In his press conference after the match O'Connell said he felt comfortable despite being tested in the opening two sets.<\/p>\n "Yeah, I felt awesome out there, pretty relaxed and calm," he said.<\/p>\n "I was serving well, but he was also serving well.<\/p>\n "So, yeah, the first couple sets ended up in a tiebreak.<\/p>\n "I just felt that my game lifted slightly. I just made a few more returns in the tiebreaks both sets. Really that was a slight edge.<\/p>\n "Then, yeah, I felt like I just ran away with it a little bit in the third set."<\/p>\n O'Connell will now face the winner of world No.13 Roberto Bautista Agut and Moldovan Radu Albot on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Hailing from Sydney's northern beaches, O'Connell admitted his preparation was slightly impacted with the region forced into lockdown during December and January.<\/p>\n "Yeah, I was impacted a little bit," he said.<\/p>\n "I'm from the northern part of the northern beaches. Yeah, it was a bit tough there for a little bit.<\/p>\n "But I managed to get in a little bit of training. A little bit stressful at times, but it was okay."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian wildcard Chris O'Connell is through to the second round of the Australian Open following a shock straight-sets win over German world No.37 Jan-Lennard Struff. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32937,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32935\/revisions\/32937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n