Novak Djokovic, genius and figure. His spirit of improvement was commendable to reach Wimbledon less than a month after undergoing surgery on his right knee due to a meniscal tear he sustained in his round of 16 match against the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo at Roland Garros. He beat him, but he did not appear in the quarterfinals against the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
“Superhuman,” he told her personally Carlos Alcaraz when he met her at the All England Club. He doesn’t just compete, he says “I’m not just coming to play two or three matches, I want to go for the title” and in this vocation as a seven-time champion and twenty-four-time Grand Slam winner he has faced the tournament.
And ‘Nole’ in predator mode is an uncontrollable ‘animal’. He doesn’t care about the rival or the tie. If in front of him he has the 277th in the world, a rookie whose first Grand Slam victory was on his debut against the Spaniard Alexander Moroit faces a demand to make it into the top-10.
Won 6-3, 6-4, 5-7 and 7-5 in 3 hours in british Jacob Fearnley 22 years old and 277 in the world. But Djokovic had so many questions for himself that he exploded. He needs a fight to feed himself. There should be no risk in the match against a Scot who arrived late to the professionals due to injuries and had a long career at university in the United States, but the pressure of monitoring his right knee, of avoiding a bad move or a dangerous fall, which led him to moments of paroxysm.
He fought, of course, with his technical team. Even the presence in the back row of his family (his wife Jelena and his children Stefan and Tara) stopped his attacks. He also had moments in a part of the stand. Challenging moves and looks to some fans in particular.
Fearnley picked up the courage and grabbed the third set. He continued to bite in the fourth, turning Djokovic into another mode, being serious. Maximum concentration. Oblivious to the noise to finish his pass. With the victory tied, he praised the game of the British player.
Djokovic, in pure essence. He will return to the track on Saturday, against the Australian Alexei Popyrinwho beat the Argentine Tomas Martín Etcheverry 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-3. And he will fight whoever it takes with the goal of moving to the second round by any means necessary. Playing worse or better but competing. And above all, win.
Source: La Verdad
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