Italian

Lorenzo Sonego

, played back from the previous phase, revealed the world number one, Serbian

Novak Djokovic

, whom he beat 6-2, 6-1 in 70 minutes, in the quarterfinals of the Vienna tournament.

The transalpine, 42 in the ATP ranking and who has only one title in his career, the one he won in Antalya last year, caused the

third defeat of the course for the Belgrade tennis player

, who did not show any signs of being injured.

Djokovic, unknown, resigned to a hard and clear defeat, had only lost this 2020 against Rafael Nadal in the final of Roland Garros and against the Spanish Pablo Carreño in the second round of the United States Open, when he was disqualified for hitting with a ball to a linesman.

Bad Nole game

The good level shown by Sonego, who achieved the victory of his life against the world number one, did not justify the poor encounter of Djokovic, holder of 81 ATP titles.

This year he won the Australian Open, the 1,000 Masters in Rome and Cincinnati and the Dubai tournament.

Djokovic's elimination was the bombshell of a session that featured two other unexpected scores in the quarterfinals.

First,

the victory of South African Kevin Anderson against Russian Daniil Medvedev

.

Anderson will seek the final against Russian

Andrey Rublev,

fifth seed, author of the other surprise of the day by beating the current champion and second seed, the local Dominic Thiem, by 7-6 (5) and 6- 2.

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