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Something snapped inside
Novak Djokovic
in the seventh game of his match against
Daniil Medvedev
.
The Russian is one of the rivals that makes him sweat the most, to the point that he had won two of the last three games and in the only victory, this year in the ATP Cup, 'Nole' fell on his back after another. duel of enormous physical exhaustion.
It looked like the table was set for another fiery duel between the two, but Medvedev broke something inside the Serb.
The Russian was a wall.
He got to everything, gave everything back, and sometimes even the point wind would change him.
Medvedev's extraordinary defense tamed all of Djokovic's attacks, who couldn't find his laps.
There was no loophole and only a few mistakes, just a few cut setbacks that did not reach their destination.
Little else was the Serbian back, who had to squeeze himself to try to save that seventh game.
After more than 11 minutes, four leads from the Serbian and three break points from the Russian, Medvedev went gasping to the bench with the first break in his backpack.
It was a turning point in the encounter, which shot the Russian and frustrated the Serbian.
Medvedev's endurance test from the back of the court was 18-10 in the first set points that went more than five strokes.
Proof of the Serbian's blocking was that he let the first set escape with a double fault, the second he committed in that decisive game.
A cyclone
Medvedev was defense but also push.
After scoring the first set, he opened the second with a game that he resolved in just one minute.
Expeditious with the first serve and very confident with the second (he won 61% of points with it).
Little was left in Djokovic's game, who also gave up his first service game in the second set, disarmed as he was by a rival who in the last year and a half has managed to defeat him three times.
Daniil Medvedev, who left London last year with a donut in his locker, has won the first two games against Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic without giving up a single set and is already in the semifinals as group winners.
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