Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Late in the third set of his second-round US Open match against Daniil Medvedev, Sebastian Gorzny tried an underarm serve. This off-pace shot is rare in professional and recreational tennis, and at either level, it signals supreme confidence or total desperation. Gorzny was desperate. He’s 22 years old, just months removed from his second season at the University of Texas at Austin; Medvedev, the former US Open champion, ranked eighth in the world, had breezed through the first two sets. The third was even at 4–4, and Gorzny was in the midst of a brutal, prolonged service game. He’d fought off multiple break points and reached…The post Could This UT Grad Be the Next Great American Tennis Star? appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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