Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic qualified for the quarterfinals of Wimbledon after defeating Polish Hubert Hurkacz 3:1 in sets. It was Novak's XNUMXth match at the London Grand Slam.
The match started on Sunday and ended today.
Sports journalists report that after a big fight on Sunday, when Hurkac's service dominance began, and during which Novak saved three consecutive set-points in the first part and played an unreal tie-break in the second, the match continued with undiminished drama today. .
The Pole gave Novak huge problems with his opening shots, so it happened that Djokovic, who is probably the best returner in the history of tennis, won only four points in the rival's service games in the third set.
Hurkač used such dominance to attack Novak at the end of the period, when he got two set-balls, and he used the second one to win the period.
However, after losing the first set, Novak did not "lose his nerve" but played better, minute by minute he "threatened" his rival, and only in the 22nd service game of Hurkac, Novak managed to break.
Having thus overcome the most difficult obstacle, the Serbian ace entered the final with much more confidence, and in it he managed to "knock out" the Polish mountaineer who played a really excellent round of 16.
Novak Djokovic's next rival will be Andrei Rublev, who the day before beat Kazakhstan's Aleksander Bublik in five sets.
S.Ć./Evening news
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