The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic defeated the Portuguese Jaime Faria without any major problems with a score of 3:1 and thus reached the round of 16 of the Australian Open.
At the same time, he made a historic feat.
Djokovic won with a score of 6:1, 6:7, 6:3 and 6:2 in exactly three hours of play. It wasn’t easy for the Serbian tennis player, but it was excelled in three out of four sets and deservedly won a place among the 32 best tennis players at the first Grand Slam tournament of the season.
The currently seventh player in the world had minor problems only in the second set. The Portuguese served excellently and did not allow Djokovic to “break” him with his recognizable game.
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Faria had break advantage in the second set, the lead was 5:2, but even that was not a guarantee of winning the set. Djokovic came back to 6:6 and took the set to a tie-break, but the 125th player in the world did better there and leveled the sets at 1:1.
However, that was all we saw of the Portuguese, because he Djokovic was dominant in the next two and came to a new victory.
It was a historic day for Djokovic – he has overtaken Roger Federer in the number of appearances at Grand Slam tournaments. As incredible as it sounds, Djokovic played on Wednesday 430. duel at Grand Slam tournaments.
Also, Djokovic is the first player in history to register 150 Grand Slam wins after a full 30 years of life. That feat has been seen before, but only in the ladies competition where she did it Serena Williams.
The Serbian tennis player will play against the Czech tennis player in the round of 16 Tomas Mahač, who is currently the 25th player in the world and who after five sets was better than Reilly Opelka early Wednesday morning.
(www.jabuka.tv)
