It is another thing entirely to win the third one against a player who is on the verge of winning as many Grand Slam singles titles as any man who has ever picked up a racket. It is one thing to win two sets in a Grand Slam match. He said he was, but rose slowly and walked to his chair to dust himself off as the chair umpire picked up his racket.ĭjokovic returned to the court a minute later but slowly, and from that moment on, he was not moving the way he normally does. Tsitsipas and the chair umpire approached to see if he was OK.

He stayed on the clay for several seconds. Djokovic sprinted for it and stretched to get his strings on it, but as the ball hit the clay a second time, Djokovic lost his footing and tumbled to the clay, just missing a collision with the thick post that holds up the net. Then Tsitsipas hit a drop shot that landed just a few feet from the net. The match was tight, but it wasn’t close. Tsitsipas had saved himself with four early aces. The score was tied, 3-3, but Djokovic had yet to lose a point on his serve, and he had put pressure on Tsitsipas during his service games. Two days later, it turned out, he had to scale K2.ĭjokovic appeared to be on cruise control until midway through the first set. Djokovic compared beating Nadal at Roland Garros to climbing Mount Everest. He is now the only male player of the modern era to have won every Grand Slam tournament twice.Īnd yet Sunday’s final was anything but a coronation, even if at first it looked like it would be. The third-seeded Spaniard only lost eight games over three sets and finished the victory off in style with a third-set shutout. Nadal also won nine break points and outclassed his young Italian opponent with 20 more winners.The title was Djokovic’s second at a French Open. Nadal experienced a much more routine victory, as he gave Jannik Sinner no chance to get into the contest. Djokovic won all nine of the break points he forced and produced 22 more winners than his unseeded foe. The young Italian won a single game in the third, fourth and fifth sets before retiring at 0-4 in the last set. However, Musetti never had a chance to close out Djokovic because the Serb found another gear once the third set began. Musetti closed those sets to continue his perfect record in tiebreaks on the ATP Tour level. 1 seed to a pair of tiebreaks in the first and second sets. That allowed Matteo Berrettini to take a spot in the final eight.ĭjokovic's position in the tournament came under threat in an unexpected manner in the first two sets against Musetti. Only three men's singles matches took place Monday after the withdrawal of Roger Federer. The top seed did not take control until the third set of the contest. Novak Djokovic was not as successful at the start of his showdown with Lorenzo Musetti.

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