While the Serb left Dimitrov on the road, the Scot ended his journey to the first Grand Slam of the year in the third round.
This Saturday a new day of australian open a competition that brings together the best tennis players on the planet in the Oceanian country to play the first major of the ATP circuit.
In this sense, a duel that stood out in the third phase of the tournament was the one that led Novak Djokovic (5th) and Grigor Dimitrov (28th) a match that lasted three hours and seven minutes of play.
The match started with a Serbian who quickly began to tip the scales in his favor, breaking his rival’s serve from the start; However, when everything seemed to indicate that the former world number one would close the first set, the Bulgarian reacted to level the set at five. Then the two tennis players won their respective service games until they forced the definition in a tie-break, example where the native of Belgrade sealed the set with a score of 9 to 7 in his favor .
In the second quarter, the process remained even, until the sixth game Djokovic got a break that allowed him to dominate the actions to stay with a 6-3 .
Already in the third and last round, the match fell into irregularity: five breaks, three on Dimitrov’s side and two on the Serb’s side, testified to the situation, which was not however a brake for the winner of 21 Grand Slams will close the set 6-4 .
With this result, Djokovic has qualified for the round of 16 of the Australian Open, a phase in which he will face the local Álex de Miñaur (24th) executioner of Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi (48th) by 7-6 (0), 6-2 and 6-1.
Bautista stops Murray
In another outstanding match of the day, the Spaniard Roberto Bautista (25th) put an end to the illusions of continuing to advance the Briton Andy Murray (66th) which in the previous phase had staged a triumph with epic characteristics after defeating the Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (159°) in almost six hours of play.
On this occasion, the Hispanic proved to be more effective and, taking advantage of the playing time of his rival – who took five hours on his debut to leave behind him the Italian Matteo Berrettini (14th) – He imposed his best physical condition to stay with the engagement with partial scores of 6-1, 6-7(7), 6-3 and 6-4 .
In the next round, Bautista will face the American Tommy Paul (35th) who beat his compatriot Jenson Brooksby (39th) 6-1, 6-4 and 6-3.
Jarry’s Executioner Keeps Moving On
The American Ben Shelton (89th) who beat the Chilean Nicolás Jarry (154th) in the second phase, maintains his triumphal trajectory in Australia. This time he had no major problem leaving host Alexei Popyrin (113th) on the road, after two hours of play, with partials of 6-3, 7-6(4) and 6-4 . .
The twenty-year-old will have another American, Jeffrey John Wolf (67th) as his next challenge. who in the third round clearly beat his compatriot Michael Mmoh (107th) 6-4, 6-1 and 6-2.
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