Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic returned to the titles this Sunday, in the first tournament he played after becoming champion at Wimbledon, by beating Croatian Marin Cilic in two sets in the Tel Aviv final.
The direct confrontation between the two tennis players was already leaning towards Djokovic and the seventh player in the world beat Cilic again, 6-3 and 6-4, in one hour and 35 minutes, to add victory number 19 in 21 duels. with the Croatian
In what was his first tournament on the ATP circuit since he won his 21st Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in early July, the Serbian was unstoppable, becoming champion in the Israeli city without giving up a single set.
‘Djoko’, who missed the North American ‘season’, including the US Open, for continuing to refuse to be vaccinated against covid-19, added his third title of the season, after winning the Masters 1000 in Rome and on the grass of the All England Club.
Currently seventh in the ATP ranking, the record holder for weeks as number one in the world (373) celebrated the 89th title of his career, against a Cilic (16th) who was looking for the first trophy of the season.
The Serbian had returned to the ‘courts’ last week, in the Laver Cup, in Europe’s defeat against the rest of the world team.
Source: Observadora
