Novak Djokovic will
finish the year at the top of the world rankings.
The Serbian beat Croatian Borna Coric (7-6 (11) and 6-3) in the Vienna tournament, reached the quarterfinals of the tournament and secured world number one at the end of the season for the sixth time in his career. career, equaling the record of American
Pete Sampras
.
The Belgrade tennis player, the first seed, needed to reach the third round of the competition to close the course again at the top of the world rankings.
It took two hours and nine minutes to seal the necessary victory.
Novak Djokovic will close 2020 as number one in the world.
The Serbian leaves behind
Rafael Nadal
and the Swiss
Roger Federer
who have done it five times.
For the Balkan it will be the sixth (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018 and now 2020).
It equals Sampras who was consecutively from 1993 to 1998.
Djokovic, who will accumulate
292 weeks at the top of the ATP rankings
and who already has close to 310 that Federer has accumulated, had to work hard to win the first set against Coric, resolved in the tiebreaker 13-11 and with four set points for the Croatian that his rival saved.
The tennis player from Zagreb, twenty-fourth in the world, who had lost the three previous meetings with the Serbian, declined in the second set.
He gave up two of his services and the Belgrade tennis player closed the game.
Djokovic will face in the quarterfinals the winner of the match between the Polish Hubert Hurkacz and the Italian Lorenzo Sonego.
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