If you notice, Serbia will not fight this week for one of the eight tickets to the final stage of the Davis Cup. The Balkan team fell in the qualifying round in February and must fight to return to the elite of team tennis.
He does it at home against a Greece that arrived without its great star (in fact, the only player with face and eyes in the country), Stefanos Tsitsipas. The former Roland Garros finalist He chose to rest this week, leaving a bleak outlook for his country.
None of those called were among the top 700 in the ATP, which predicted a comfortable victory for the Serbian. And that boy.
The first point went to Miomir Kecmanovic, who beat Aristotelis Thanos, world number 713, 6-3, 6-3. But the best, or worst, depending on how you look at it, is yet to come. Novak Djokovic faced Ioannis Xilas, a 23-year-old young man and number 770 in the ranking. who hopes to fight the Olympic champion.
It’s not really like that. The match lasted almost 45 minutes and ended with a result of 6-0, 6-1 for Nole, who went up to 6-0, 5-0. before taking his foot off the accelerator to prevent his rival from leaving with a double donut.
In the end, 6-1 in the second set to close a match where He won 52 points to the Greek’s 16.
At the end of the match, Djokovic took a photo with Bogdan Bogdanovicone of the members of the Serbian basketball team that won the bronze medal at the Paris Games.
This Sunday the remaining three points will be playedthat should prove the classification of Serbia, which will fight next February to return to the highest category of tennis.
Source: La Verdad
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