WIMBLEDON.- The Serbian Novak Djokoviccurrently eighth in the world ranking, beat the Greek with authority this Wednesday Stefanos Tsitsipas to advance to the third round of Wimbledonwhere he will face the French Arthur Rinderknechwhich occupies 28th place in the classification ATP.
The seven-time tournament champion, who looks in Londonat 39 years old, win a historic twenty-fifth title grand slambeat the Greek 6-3, 6-4 and 6-2, who was number 3 in the world and now occupies 87th place in the ranking.
After this defeat, Tsitsipas, 27, has not managed to surpass Djokovic since 2019 and is now left with a balance of just two victories in fifteen matches against the Serbian.
After a complicated debut on Monday against the Chinese Wu Yibing (102nd in the world), Djokovic showed greater effectiveness against Tsitsipas.
The Serbian broke the Athenian’s serve in his only break opportunity, when the first set was 2-1, and did so again at the key moment of the second set, with the score tied 4-4.
The third set was clearly in favor of the Serbian, despite a last attempt at a reaction by the Greek, who had two break points (15-40) when Djokovic served to close the match with a 5-2 lead.
Djokovic joins the current champion and great favorite of the tournament, the Italian, in the third round Jannik Sinnerto fourth in the ranking, the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassimeand the one who was world number one, the Russian Daniil Medvedevnow ninth in the world rankings, who also made it through this Wednesday.
Sinner suffers again
The Italian Jannik Sinnerworld number 1 and defending champion in Wimbledonqualified for the third round of the London tournament by defeating the Portuguese this Wednesday Nuno Borges (48th in the ranking) by 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/2), 6-4.
After a complicated debut in the first round against the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovi (50th), which he won in five sets, the 24-year-old Italian won this time in three sets, although he had to work hard to overcome the Portuguese, who took him to the “tie-break” on two occasions.
In search of his second consecutive title in Wimbledonthe fifth of a grand slam a month after his early elimination, in the second round, in Roland GarrosSinner will face the American in the third round Jenson Brooksby (81st in the ranking).
“The second set was very hard. These matches, where you don’t have much control, make me very happy when I win them,” said Sinner.
