Novak Djokovic He put his finger to his temple and also lowered his hand to the level of his testicles as he watched his team celebrate qualifying for their ninth ATP Masters 1000 final in Paris.
He had a really bad time to come back from a match that for almost two hours was dominated by the best version of the Russian. Andrey Rublev. As the legend of this sport, with some magic points in the tiebreak of the second set he survived and propelled himself to victory 5-7, 7-6 (3) and 7-5 in 3 hours. 01′.
Because the pass is tied to the final, which will be played this Sunday at 3:00 pm against the Bulgarians Grigor Dimitrov, Djokovic He confesses his suffering, sometimes exhaustingly.
“Rublev has been suffocating me like a snake strangling a frog for most of the match. I know his great quality, but today he played like a real outlier. I don’t think I’ve ever faced such a great Rublev,” Djokovic explained.
“On the other hand, I had to fight my own physical problems in the beginning,” he noted. “Stomach problems have made me have a hard time in recent days. Somehow, I got through it with the strength of adrenaline,” said the Balkan, who revealed a few days ago his fight against a stomach virus.
“I deserve this victory for the effort, the fight that I have put in against all this,” he concluded before going to the locker room to think. Grigor Dimitrov, which he struck out eleven out of twelve times. His 58th Masters 1000 final, ninth in Paris, was only the second in that category for the Bulgarian, who for the second time ever made it past the semi-finals at this indoor venue in the French capital.
Source: La Verdad
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