Holger Rune reaches his second consecutive victory against Novak Djokovic and goes to the semifinals in Rome.
Denmark’s Holger Rune, 7th in the ATP, scored his second consecutive victory against world No. 1, Novak Djokovic, in a match full of drama, arguments and rain stoppages in the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters.
2hXX was enough for Rune to close the draw at 6/2 4/6 6/X against the current champion of the tournament and holder of a total of six titles in the traditional tournament of the Italian capital. On the court Rune converted X aces against XX of the Serbian, who committed 35 unforced errors with X double faults, against 16 by Rune with X double faults. However, the Dane hit 26 winning balls against Nole’s 22.
Playing very aggressively on service return and working to keep the Serb as far off the baseline as possible, Rune opened the game by breaking Djokovic’s serve, parrying two break points to open the 2/0 and followed up very sharply with a backhand to open the 5/1 after breaking in the fifth game and managing.
Best tennis player today, Djokovic was not intimidated by the young man’s victory in the first round, he backed up his service games and won a break in the 6th game and in the next game he saw the young man lose his mind and argue with the referee of the match, the Swede Mohamed Lahyani, who called it a “joke”. The match progressed and finished paralyzed with the score at 5/4 for the Serbian due to rain,
The interruption lasted almost 1 hour and the Serbian came under pressure in the return leg, but he leveled the game by scoring. In the decisive set Rune continues solid with a backhand return, breaks Djokovic’s serve who misses and opens 3/0 with a new break in a game in which he sees Djokovic arguing with the referee after getting a yellow card for time extrapolation . withdraw. Firm and confident, La Liga opened 4/0 and got away with it.
Looking for an unprecedented place in the final in Rome, Rune awaits the winner of the duel between the Norwegian Casper Ruud and the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo.
Source: Terra
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