Novak Djokovic wins his 91st career game at Melbourne and fly to 3rd round of the Australian Open, but what an effort. The world No. 1 and ten-time champion suffers even more than his debut with the Croatian Prizmic. Alexey Popyrin scares the Serbian, unbeaten on Rod Laver Arena since 2019: the Australian wins the 2nd set, wastes four set points in the third and surrenders 6-3, 4-6, 7-6, 6-3 after over three hours of play. Nole (30th consecutive success in Melbourne) it doesn’t look 100%: physically not exuberant, not very aggressive in his shots and often saved by the serve, he still manages to reach the 3rd round where he will face the Argentine Martin Etcheverry30 del seeding.
Tstsipas e Rublev al 3° turno
Stefanos Tsitsipas confirms that he is not in the best condition, but emerges victorious from the battle of over three and a half hours with the Australian Thompson, who had recently beaten Rafa Nadal. Move forward more smoothly Andrey Rublev, 5 of the seeding, which beats the American Eubanks with a triple 6-4. Loses a set Ben Shelton against the Australian O’Connell, as well as Karen Khachanov with the American Kovacevic: for the Russian a possible match in the round of 16 with Jannik Sinner. Among the women ahead Sabalenka e Gauffwhile the Tunisian Jaber wins just 2 games against the baby phenomenon Andreeva.
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