Novak Djokovic is raising the level of his game, still struggling after knee surgery, but against increasingly difficult opponents, he is slowly making his way through the Wimbledon draw.
The best tennis player of all time qualified for the round of 4 of the unofficial world tennis championship, winning against Australian Alexey Popirin - 6:6, 3:6, 4:7, 6:3 (XNUMX).
Djokovic played a very bad first set, his rival used a single break point for a break in the seventh game, after which he brought the set to an end without any problems.
Many times Djokovic was in a similar position in his career, to lose the first set, especially at Wimbledon, but many were afraid because of the "fresh" knee meniscus surgery.
Nole, however, showed that the injury is a thing of the past, after closing the roof on the Central Court, he automatically entered the recognizable "mode", although he saved a break point at the start of the second set, and then the rival no longer had a chance.
Djokovic made one break each in the second and third sets, he could have in the fourth as well, but Popirin saved three tied break points at 5:5.
It went to a tie-break, which the Serbian tennis player easily solved - 7:3, using the first match point.
In the round of 16, Djokovic will face his toughest rival so far, Dane Holger Rune, who defeated him twice in five matches.
Rune survived a tough test today, losing 2:0 to the Frenchman Quentin Hallis, reducing it to 2:1 before the match was interrupted due to rain, so that the Dane would complete the turnaround on court number 1, under a closed roof - 1:6 , 6:7, 6:4, 7:6, 6:1.
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