The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic finished this Friday 100% victorious in the ATP group stage s, by beating the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who leaves Turin without any victory.
This was a meeting between two former world number ones, but it only served to meet the schedule, as Djokovic was already assured of first place in the Red Group and Medvedev knew he would leave Italy in last place.
However, the match was highly contested, with the Serbian, eighth in the world rankingbeating Medvedev, fifth, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7) and 7-6 (7-2), after a long ‘marathon’ of three hours and 12 minutes.
Nole achieved the first break of the match in the eighth game of the first set, closing the set shortly after, however Medvedev raised the level and leveled the dispute in the following set.
Without any service breaks, Medvedev handed Djokovic the first set loss of this tournament in the tie-break, but equally, in the next set, Djokovic was left on a walk. to try to win undefeated the ATP Finals.
For the eleventh time in the semifinals of the tournament that brings together the eight best tennis players of the season, Djokovic will face North American Taylor Fritz this Saturday, second in the Green Group.
The Serbian seeks in Turin to match the record of six Finals titles held by the retired Roger Federer.
Also on this day, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and the Russian Andrey Rublev are discussing the second place in the Red Group, with the winner facing the Norwegian Casper Ruud in the semifinals.
Source: Observadora
