the serbian Novak Djokovicfourth favorite, easily defeated the Russian on Thursday Karen Khachanov in two sets, 6-4 and 6-3, in an hour and a half match in the quarterfinals of Astana ATP (Kazakhstan), on hard court.
The Balkan tennis player, number 7 in the world, found more resistance in the first set against Khachanov than in the previous match against Dutch Botic van de Zandschulp. The Russian came to break a serve and stayed close to scoring, until Djokovic broke his serve again.
In the second round, Khachanov, number 18 in the ATP ranking, slowed down the game and served enough for ‘Nole’ to go straight and win the match.
In this way, the winner of 21 Grand Slams advances steadily to the semifinals of the Kazakh tournament, where he will face the winner of this Friday’s match between the Spaniard Roberto Bautista, world number 21, and the Russian Daniil Medvedev, second favorite and fourth. of the world.
Source: La Verdad
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