Without the complications of its premiere, on Tuesday against the Czech Tomas Macchac in the first round, the world number one, the Serbian Novak Djokovicthe commitment against the Dutch was resolved this Wednesday without complications Tallon Griekspoor to access the quarter finals of the tournament Dubai ATP 500.
Djokovic won by 6-2 and 6-3 in one hour and seventeen minutes. It was a scheme for Balkan, who achieved his nineteenth victory in a row and extended his unbeaten status to 2023.
The Serbian player, who has already beaten Griekspoor, thirty-ninth in the world, at the 2021 US Open with the same authority, is seeking his sixth trophy in Dubai. With the 2023 Adelaide and Australian Open victories already in his pocket, he intends to extend his streak even further in the United Arab Emirates, where he started the season last year.
Djokovic, who on Monday entered history as the tennis player with the longest time at number one in the world ranking, with 378 weekswill play in the quarterfinals with the winner of the match between the Russians Pavel Kotov and the polish Hubert Hurkaczfifth favorite
Previously, the reigning champion, the Russian Andrei Rublevsurvived the Spanish Alexander Davidovichthat had five match points which he did not know how to take advantage of. In the end, Rublev won 1-6, 7-6(6) and 7-6(3) and will face the Dutch in the quarterfinals Apothecary Van de ZandschulpSwedish executioner Mikael Ymer by 3-6, 6-3 and 6-3.
The Italian gave the session a surprise Lorenzo Sonegowhich knocked the Canadian out of the competition Felix Auger-Aliassimeseeded fourth, won by 7-6(4) and 6-4and met, in search of the semifinals, with the German Alexander Zverevwho beat the Australian Christopher O’Connell through 7-5 and 6-4.
Source: La Verdad
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