Astana [Kazakhstan]: Former World No 1 Novak Djokovic, played a dominant brand of tennis on Sunday, defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 to win the third edition of the Astana Open on Sunday.
It was the 9th consecutive match triumph for the fourth seed, who thrived a title just a week back in Tel Aviv. This was the 90th tour-level triumph for the 35-year-old Djokovic as well as it needed only 75 mins. “I risked to desire, actually. I always wished that I would certainly be going to have an excellent job. Certainly, really did not recognize the number of finals I was mosting likely to play, the number of tournaments I was mosting likely to win, however my intention was always to get to the highest elevations in our sport,” ATP.com priced estimate Djokovic as saying.
Tsitsipas will go back to the Top 5 in the ATP Rankings on Monday as well as the 24-year-old Greek maintains his lead among all ATP Scenic tour players with 53 match success.
Djokovic proved to be a maverick to win the very first video game at ‘love’ in just over a minute to begin the match. At 3-4 as well as offering, Tsitsipas stepped up the heat on the 21-time significant champ.
In the second collection’s fifth video game, a let down Tsitsipas tried a decrease fired that sailed into the web, offering Djokovic another break. Later, Djokovic utilized his trademark backhand winner into an open court to rack up on his 3rd match point.
“I’m just extremely thankful and honored to be able to play this well at this stage of my life. You understand, 35 is not 25. But I think the experience, possibly, in these sort of matches and big celebrations assists too to method emotionally in properly,” stated Djokovic.
“Well, it did. I could not request a much better restart of the period. I’m super-pumped and also inspired to finish the period as well as I have done these past number of weeks,” added the 21-times Conquest champ.
