Djokovic beats Norrie and goes to the round of the US Open

Novak Djokovic is in the round of 16 of the US Open for the 16th time, the 69th overall in a Slam, equaling the record of Roger Federer. The four-time New York champion, after two little exciting victories that attracted attention more for his athletic condition than for the quality of the game, defeated the British Cameron Norrie for the seven time out of seven time, n.35 of the world (but already 8 at the end of 2022) with the score of 6-4 6-7 (4) 6-2 6h in 2h50 ‘, despite having once again had to deal physicist.

fear

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The seventh seeded played a amazing first set, in which he lost only two points at the service and scored 17 winners, but made his fans tremble and the audience of the arthur ashe in the eighth game, when after a volée of straight in counter -time (he went to the right and rejected a ball that was above and behind his head) began to touch his back, evidently the victim of his back, an elongation due to the unnatural twist. After serving to go to 5-4, Nole asked for the intervention of the physiotherapist and received the necessary care in the changing rooms with a suspension of the match of about ten minutes. Upon returning to the field, he immediately obtained the break that gave him the first set, and then he also made himself treated at the first change of field of the second set, but from that moment on it seemed almost free from annoyance for the rest of the meeting.

the apotheosis

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The game lives a lot on services, but in the seventh game Djokovic does not use three consecutive break balls from 0-40 that could allow him to get his hands on the second set, and will regret them. Because Norrie’s game grows with the passing of the game to the epilogue at the tie-break: Novak starts strongly going to take the mini break immediately, but the British turns the inertia and goes on to lead 5-3 always playing in the push, while the Djoker gives the set even with a double foul. At the start of the third set, the Englishman immediately finds the break by reassembling from a situation of 40-15 thanks to his sharp straight. However, Novak finds the immediate counterbreak with a great game in response and with the help of a double English foul, after which he enters Martian mode by limiting the errors to a minimum and also exploiting a bad performance at the Norrie service. The partial ends 6-2, and the immediate break of the two to zero in the fourth set is the tombstone on Norrie’s ambitions, also because Djokovic keeps an outlet in the unapproachable service for the rival: in the end the former n.1 will create 51 winners, including 18 ACE, his personal record in Flushing Meadows. And in fact his words will confirm satisfaction: “One of my most incisive recent performances in the service, I managed to get the most out of this blow”. In the round of 16, the German Struff awaits him, with whom he is ahead 7-0 in the previous ones.

the other games

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On the Italian night on the male scoreboard, Fritz also advances, series head n.4, which however must leave the first set to the Swiss surprise Kym, while in the female Townsnd, 139 WTA, the Russian Andreeva is surprising (5), one of the possible favorites, Krejcikova Rimonta Navarro and the number one Sabalenka, a revenue champion, regulates the Canadian Fernandez, who was in New York. 2021 reaching the lost final with Raducanu. Curious curtain during the match: at a change of field a spectator asked the girlfriend to marry him with a lot of delivery of the ring.