Marin Cilic takes advantage of incredible lucky break to beat Fernando Verdasco

Marin Cilic played his Australian Open get-out-of-jail-free card, surviving an astonishing moment to beat Fernando Verdasco in the third round.
The Croatian lost the opening two sets, and faced a match point in the fourth. Verdasco,though, inexplicably double-faulted. Three points later, Cilic had levelled the match at 2-2.
With momentum very much in his favour, he closed out a tense final set to seal an incredible 4-6 3-6 6-1 7-6(10-8)
“Thanks for sticking around, it was definitely a tough match, unbelievable,” Cilic told the crowd in his on-court interview.
“It was a big hill to climb… I’m just putting myself in a hole and let’s see what I’m going to do.”
On the defining double-fault of the match, Cilic added: “It was definitely a tough tiebreak.
“It came down to one shot, or basically one decision. I was a little bit lucky on that net cord.
“Today I was just slightly luckier in those crucial moments.”
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