Keep warm hand. Novak Djokovic beat Karen Khachanov and tied Rafael Nadal’s record of 14 quarter-finals in Roland Garros. Thus, the N ° 1 in the world took another important step in the third and last Grand Slam of this special year, on the traditional Parisian clay.
Djokovic disposed of Khachanov’s resistance with authority, who presented him with a battle in a balanced match in the process but not on the scoreboard. It was 6-4, 6-3 and 6-3 for the Serbian over the Russian, in the fourth round of the Paris Major.
Djokovic then entered the quarterfinals of the French Open for the 14th year and thus equaled the top mark that Nadal, his escort in the ATP ranking and owner of the historical record for titles in that event, had achieved a day before, with 12 in the same amount of endings.
The plus of the Serbian is that he was installed in the round of the eight best in Paris for the 11th year in a row. And as for the number of accesses to the quarterfinals among the four Grand Slams, he reached that wheel for the 47th time, being the second mark, 10 behind the Swiss Roger Federer.
Djokovic’s next rival will be the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta or the surprising German Daniel Altmaier, located outside the World Top 150. To face Carreño, it will be special for the leader of the ranking since he was fighting in the first set a month ago against that player when he threw a ball at the US Open and hit, without intention, a linesman, which resulted in his disqualification from the tournament.
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