The South African Kevin Anderson He beat the Spanish with authority Pablo Carreño (7-5 and 6-1), who stayed on the sidelines of the quarterfinals of the tournament One that previously reached the Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Carreño, fifteenth in the world, was gradually diluted before a rival who is currently located in position 111 of the ranking. The Spaniard resisted the first round but collapsed in the next, in a crash that lasted 83 minutes.
Anderson will face the winner of the second round match between Russian Daniil Medvedev, who beat Taiwanese Jason Jung 6-3 and 6-1 and Canadian Vasek Pospisil who beat compatriot Felix Auger-Aliassine by a double 7- 5.
Previously, Serbian Novak Djokovic beat Croatian Borna Coric (7-6 (11) and 6-3) and in addition to reaching the quarterfinals of the Vienna tournament, he made sure to finish the season as number one for the sixth time in his career , like the American Pete Sampras.
The Belgrade tennis player, the first seed, needed to reach the third round of the competition to close the course again at the top of the world rankings. It took two hours and nine minutes to seal the necessary victory.
Novak Djokovic will close 2020 as number one in the world. The Serbian leaves behind Rafael Nadal and the Swiss Roger Federer who have done it five times. For the Balkan it will be the sixth (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018 and now 2020). It equals Sampras who was consecutively from 1993 to 1998.
Djokovic, who will accumulate 292 weeks at the top of the ATP rankings and who already has close to 310 that Federer has accumulated, had to work hard to win the first set against Coric, resolved in the tiebreaker 13-11 and with four set points for the Croatian that his rival saved.
The tennis player from Zagreb, twenty-fourth in the world, who had lost the three previous meetings with the Serbian, declined in the second set. He gave up two of his services and the Belgrade tennis player closed the game.
Djokovic will face in the quarterfinals the winner of the match between the Polish Hubert Hurkacz and the Italian Lorenzo Sonego. EFE
In addition, the day was completed with the comeback of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, third favorite, in almost two hours, against the German Jan Lennard Struff (6-7 (3), 6-3 and 6-4) and will play in the second round against Grigor Dimitrov . Similarly, Italian Jannik Sinner advanced to the second round, who beat Norwegian Casper Ruud 7-6 (2) and 6-3 and will face Russian Andrey Rublev.
