Tonfavorite Novak Djokovic Has mastered the first step of the anticipated next major tennis championship. In the premiere of the season’s final game in Turin, Serbia’s world No. 1 defeated Norwegian Caspar Rud 7:6 (7:4), 6:2 in the first round on Monday. Djokovic’s goal is to win the sixth championship in the year-end championship of the eight best tennis professionals of the season, so he will be on par with record holder Roger Federer. The 34-year-old player last won the ATP Finals in 2015.
After he succeeded Luther Djokovic once again finished the year in first place, and therefore won a trophy. He has done this for the seventh time-more than anyone has ever done before. “That feels great,” he said. Compared to his childhood idol Pete Sampras, he feels very lucky to be able to achieve this goal again.
Djokovic struggles-Sisipas loses
The game against Rudd started strangely: Djokovic slipped in the first game, lost his racket, got up again, grabbed the racket and immediately played again. The top seed lost points anyway-the 12-year-old Norwegian quickly took the lead and took a break. “To be honest, I don’t know what happened to the break in the first game,” Djokovic said. “It was a terrible start.” The 20-time Grand Slam champion equalized the score with 3:3. The Serb dominated the game only after winning the first set in the tie-break.
In addition to Djokovic, Andrei Rublev also gained an advantage in the competition for one of the top two in the green group.Russia’s fifth-ranked player in the world competes for the championship of the 2019 Championship Stefanos Sisipas From Greece 6:4, 6:4.
Hamburger may be in the red group Alexander Zverev In the best case, enter the semi-finals of the last tournament of the year on Tuesday (2pm/sky). But in any case, the third-ranked man in the world must end his series of defeats against Russian U.S. Open champion Daniel Medvedev. Zverev won his first group match early on Sunday as Italian Matteo Berrettini gave up due to injury at the start of the second set. The top two of the two preliminaries advanced.
