Djokovic responds to the first weight rival

Rain or shine, hot or cold,

indulges in every match at this Roland Garros.

Sometimes he even gets bored, like in his third-round duel against Colombian

, in which he took advantage of a recess to give a hand to the employees who were busy refurbishing the track.

This Monday he beat

, 15th favorite, 6-4, 6-3 and 6-3, in two hours and 24 minutes, achieving a place in the quarterfinals, where he will face the winner of the confrontation between

and

.

No one has beaten the Serbian on the track in 2020. There are 35 victories he accumulates, although his unfortunate tantrum in the round of 16 of the US Open, precisely against Carreño, cost him disqualification.

The chance wanted that before the Russian another of his ball crashed without any damage in a linesman, who was hit during a set of the game.

Pure anecdote.

Covered

Khachanov, a well-established tennis player, with good handling of his dynamite arsenal, held him one set, in which both exchanged three breaks in the final games.

Under the retractable roof of the

, with the public dosed as usual in this edition and Paris on the eve of the maximum state of alarm due to the pandemic, the number 1 in the world played with the sufficiency of which he has been showing off, without leaving to frivolize with the use of left.

Djokovic seems more comfortable than ever in this exceptional tournament, delighted with the new Wilson balls, more docile towards those, like him, who hit flat and, for the moment, without the difficulties that he has gone through on more than one occasion in some unexpected situation.

Similar to Nadal, he spent the first three rounds against quasi-anonymous rivals.

In the second round, he had the opportunity to feel the ball of a good competitor, a giant who had already beaten him precisely in the French capital, in the final of Paris-Bery in 2018. Go fine

, with the only sin of being distracted in some occasion, something that will surely correct when the demand is greater.

He is in the top eight without giving up a set and with 25 lost games, two more than Nadal.

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