2023-05-14 22:20:00
Serbian Novak Djokovic, seeded first, reached the final price of the Rome Masters Tournament in tennis, with a difficult victory in three sets over Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, while the first seed and defending champion in the last two years crossed the Polish Iga Chevontec without trouble to the same role.
In the first match, Djokovic, who was crowned champion in Rome 6 times, achieved his eleventh victory over Dimitrov in 12 meetings that brought them together.
Djokovic succeeded in breaking his opponent’s serve twice in the first set to win it easily 6-3, and seemed on his way to settling the match in two clean sets when he broke his opponent’s serve at the beginning of the second and advanced 3-1, then 4-2, but the Bulgarian won the next four games and thus the group. 6-4 tied the score.
The third set was one-sided, and the Serbian settled it easily 6-1, and won the match in two hours and 20 minutes.
Djokovic will meet in the next round with the 13th Briton Cameron Nuri or the 92nd Hungarian Marton Fucovic.
Russian Daniel Medvedev, third in the world, finally achieved his first victory in the Rome tournament in his fourth participation, by defeating Finnish Emil Russovari 6-4, 6-2 in the second round.
The Russian said following the match: “I am happy to finally win my first here in Rome. I just want to win as many matches as possible. The ground is not easy for me, but this season I am playing well. I have outperformed strong opponents. I feel good.”
Medvedev is looking for a fifth title this season and a second in the Masters tournaments following Miami.
In the third round, he will play Spain’s Bernabé Sabata Miraes, who defeated Australian Jason Kubler 6-7 (6/8), 6-4, 6-2.
Denmark’s Holger Rohne reached the world’s seventh final price by defeating host Fabio Fognini 6-4, 6-2.
The 20-year-old is performing well this season, winning the German Stuttgart tournament and finishing runner-up in the Monte Carlo Masters.
Next, he will meet Australian Alexei Popyrin, who defeated Russian Roman Saviolin 7-5, 7-5.
Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, fifth in the world, also qualified for the third round at the expense of Portuguese Nuno Borgos 6-3, 6-3 in a match that was completed on Sunday, following it was stopped on Saturday, like many others, due to rain.
Next, he will play Italian Lorenzo Sonego, who defeated Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5, 6-3.
German Alexander Zverev needed two and a half hours to overcome Belgian David Govan 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. The Norwegian Casper Rudd also struggled to overtake Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (7-0).
The fall of the works… continue
In the women’s category, the strongly defending champion Chiviontec had no problem overcoming Ukrainian Lesya Tsurenko 6-2, 6-0 and reached the final price.
And following achieving her third consecutive victory in the Italian capital, she will next face Croatian Donna Vekic or Russian Lyudmila Samsonova.
Her quest for a third title in Rome may be easier following the exit of five of the top ten seeds, the last of which was the Greek Maria Sakkari, the eighth in the world, by losing to the Czech Marketa Vondrochova 7-5, 6-3 in the third round.
Sakari joined the second seed, Arina Sabalenka, and the defending Madrid champion last week, the American Jessica Pegula, the third, the French, Caroline Garsa, the fourth, and the Tunisian, Anas Haber, the seventh.
Vondruchova (70 in the world) will play in the final price with Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina, sixth in the world, or Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya.
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