Off-Color Novak Djokovic Battaglie beyond Alex de Minaur at …

Novak Djokovic has reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon for the sixteenth time, but he proved to be a hard day of work at his office of the center of the center while he passed on Monday Australian Alex de Minaur.

The 38-year-old Serbian started frighteningly and lost the opening set in 31 minutes, but in the end he obtained control of a cage battle to win 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to keep his search for a 25th Grand Slam title alive.

With Roger Federer who looks from the Royal Box, the player whose record of eight male titles Djokovic is trying to equal, the usual play of Djokovic usually hurt badly at the beginning.

The hustle and lived and lived De Minaur continued to cause Djokovic headache, but the sixth seed found its range to win the two subsequent sets full of friction rally rally.

Even then, Djokovic seemed to be dragged in a fifth set while De Minaur jumped 4-1 in the fourth set, but the Serbian closed the door just in time, winning five games in a row to take his place in the last eight.

“I don’t know how I feel honest. I’m still trying to elaborate the entire game and what happened on the pitch. It wasn’t a big start for me, it was an excellent start for Alex,” said a Djokovic raised on the pitch.

“He was only managing the game better from the back of the field and I didn’t have many solutions. I was very happy to hange them in the right moments and win this.”

Djokovic has now won 43 of his last 45 games in Wimbledon and not since 2017 he has not been able to reach the final.

The two losses were against Carlos Alcaraz in the last two finals, but for half an hour on Monday it seemed that the old dad could finally reach him.

First meeting

Djokovic had never met De Minaur in a grass field after the quarter -year quarter of them was never happened when the Australian retired with an hip injury.

He expected in advance that De Minaur, 26 years old, would be a handful on the surface and that it was shown well.

With a relaxed pillowcase looking in a blue dress and immaculate shades, Djokovic’s game crumbled in a pile of double faults, wandering precedents and clumsy footwork.

“Sometimes I would like to have a service and a shot on the fly, and a nice touch of the gentleman who is there. This would have been helpful,” said Djokovic of his old rival after signing his 101st Wimbledon victory in three hours and 19 minutes.

“It is probably the first time that I see and win. The last two I have lost. It’s nice to break the curse.”

De Minaur’s gaming plan seemed to be to drag Djokovic into cat and mouse gatherings and initially worked.

But Djokovic restarted his brain similar to the computer and started putting away against the Australian who had to have believed he could take a losing series of 10 games against the first 10 players.

Djokovic won a 34 -time demonstration at the beginning of the second set, but with the service breaks that were exchanged as a collapse stock, he could not shake off the tenace de Minaur.

Using 5-4, Djokovic had to save two pause points before leveling the game. He seemed more his dominant to control the third set and not having lost a two set advantage from one since 2010, it seemed that the victory was a formality.

There was another turning point, and it was a raised Djokovic who closed the victory. [Reuters]

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