El Italian Lorenzo Sonego, repeated from the previous phase, exposed the number one in the world, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, The one who beat 6-2 and 6-1 in seventy minutes, in the quarterfinals of the Vienna tournament. ‘Nole’ had already secured number 1 until the end of the season after qualifying for the quarterfinals.
The transalpine, 42 of the ATP ranking and that has only one degree in his careera, the one who won in Antalya last year, led to the third defeat of the course for the Belgrade tennis player, who showed no signs of injury.
Djokovic, unknown, resigned to a hard and clear defeat, had only lost this 2020 against Rafael Nadal in the final of Roland Garrosand against the also Spanish Pablo Carreño in the round of 16 of the United States Open, when it was disqualified for hitting a linesman with a ball.
The good level shown by Sonego, what achieved the victory of his life Before the world number one, he did not justify the bad encounter of Djokovic, holder of 81 ATP titles. This year he won the Australian Open, the 1,000 Masters in Rome and Cincinnati and the Dubai tournament.
Sonego, which caused the Serbian’s first defeat in his career against a player played back from the qualifying round, He will play in the semifinals against the winner of the clash between British Daniel Evans and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
Djokovic’s elimination was the bombshell of a session that featured two other unexpected markers in the quarterfinals. First, the South African Kevin Anderson win over Russian Daniil Medvedev.
Anderson will seek the final against Russian Andrey Rublev, fifth seed, author of the other surprise so far this day by beating the current champion and second seed, the local Dominic Thiem, 7-6 (5) and 6- two.
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