Novak Djokovic was far from his best at the US Open on Wednesday, but he held his perfect second round record in New York to reach the third round for the 19th time.
Djokovic conquered the student ten on Sunday in his first game since his semi-final of Wimbledon, but struggled with his footwork and balance in his meadows opener rinse. Three days later and the 38-year-old could not find his A-Game for great periods against the American qualifying Zachary Svajda, but did enough to seal a 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 victory.
Djokovic committed 14 casual mistakes in a first set of low quality and was then 1-3 at the back of the third set. The 38-year-old, however, managed to increase his intensity and benefited from a physical drop-off from Svajda, which, under the first delivery, served under the third and fourth sets below 90 km / h due to a leg problem.
“Not so great to be honest,” said Djokovic when he was asked about his tennis. “I was not really happy with my tennis in the first part of the game, but also the honor of Zach to play a number of really high -quality tennis. It was a shame that he was struggling with injury by the end of the second, but a plume for him for staying on the field. He clearly couldn’t serve as well as he did for the first set and half half, but I wish him the best.”
Does he know a few things about playing on Ashe?@Djokernole Comes from a set to defeat Svajda and move on to R3!@Usopen | #Usopen pic.twitter.com/G9BP70LHDV
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With his victory, Djokovic drove to the third round on a major for a record of 75th time, with Roger Federer’s count of 74 being surpassed. The former number 1 player in the PIF ATP ranking is looking for a record-expanding 25th major and winning the US Open in 2023. He will then Cameron Norrie or Francisco Comesana.
“It’s a bit different for me in recent years,” Djokovic said about his recent big results. “Get a kind of wear faster than before. I have to do with that, many recovery points outside the field to try to make myself able to perform at the highest level for so many hours on the field.”
Djokovic admitted that he was surprised how bad he felt during his first round victory against ten and there were many shaky moments during his two -hour, 35 minutes of collision against Svajda.
In the first Lexus ATP Head2head meeting of the couple, Djokovic dropped the opening set when he could only push a heavy Svajda -Forehand wide. After leveling the game, he then gave a break of Serve in the third set with a double error.
However, the 22-year-old American qualifying match, which had won four games at the Hard-Court Major to determine a meeting with Djokovic, was unable to generate electricity through his legs from the third set. The drop -off of the world No. 145 allowed Djokovic to regain momentum and march over to victory.
Djokovic is 28-9 during the season, emphasized by winning his 100th title at Tour level in Geneva in May. This year he reached the semi -final with all three Majors, but has not succeeded in going to a final. The last time the Serbian did not reach a Grand Slam title competition in a season was in 2017.
In other action, Tomas Machac #nextgenatp Brazilian Joao Fonseca 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-3 fell. The Czech broke 30 winners up to 24 non -forced errors to reach the third round for the second consecutive year. After he went on to the fourth round in 2024, the 21st seed wants to match that when he then meets Jakub Mensik or Ugo Blanchet.
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