Tallon Greek Spoor made it difficult for Novak Djokovic in the third round of the Paris Masters tournament, but the Dutchman could not achieve great success against the world number one. Greek Spoor won the first set but lost the match 6-4, 6-7(2), 4-6.
The Netherlands’ world number 23 has played against Djokovic twice before. To date, he has never won a set against the 24-time Grand Slam winner.
Greekspor was not immediately in the right place in the game. He got off to a strange start, losing his first serve and Djokovic easily took a 4-1 lead. It looked like an easy evening for the world number one, but the Dutchman collected himself and managed to put more and more pressure on the Serb.
With a score of 4:2, Greek Spoor managed to repel his opponent, who was stronger on paper, for the first time. He disrupted Djokovic’s rhythm with clever comebacks, causing the Serbian to commit several double faults. The Dutchman cleverly converted a 1:4 deficit into a 6:4 victory in the first set.
Doctor
During the first break, Djokovic asked a doctor to give him medication. It is not clear what the 36-year-old Serb is experiencing.
In the second set, equality was achieved for a long time. When the score was 4:4, Djokovic took two break points, but the Greek team could not win. The Dutchman did not take part in the tiebreak. While Greekpoor made his second double fault of the game under pressure, the experienced Djokovic held nothing back when he really had to. The world number one confidently won the third set 7:2.
After almost two and a half hours of tennis against the strongest player in the world, Greekpoor looked tired. Djokovic grabbed the first break point at 2-2, but Greek Spoor took a break and got back into the game.
Djokovic, who provoked the noisy Paris crowd after his double fault, immediately corrected his mistake and decided the fate of the match with his first match point.
In the quarter-finals, six-time tournament winner Djokovic will face the winner of the match between Dane Holger Rune and Germany’s Daniel Altmaier.
The Greek athlete is nearing the end of a successful season in which he won his first ATP title. A year ago she was ranked 95th in the world. This year, she rose to 23rd place, thanks in part to victories at tournaments in Rosmalen and Pune, India.
Van de Zandschulp was eliminated
Botic van de Zandschulp was eliminated from the Masters tournament in Paris today. The world number sixty lost to Russian Andrei Rublev, ranked fifth in the world, with scores of 3:6 and 3:6.
Source: NOS
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