“I can still improve. As I play more matches, I am confident that my tennis will rise,” Novak Djokovic snapped this Monday with great confidence after drawing his debut in the first round of Wimbledon, the quintessential grass tournament. A scenario in which in the last two years he left at least one set and in which in his premiere in this edition he beat the Argentine Pedro Cachin with relative comfort (6-3, 6-3 and 7-6 (4)) to add 28 consecutive Wimbledon victories, 40 consecutive Center Court wins (his losses in 2016 and 2017 were on Court 1) and 66 consecutive Grand Slams without losing in the first round.
Djokovic’s figure leaves broken records with every inch he advances and at Wimbledon few can predict an end that does not include him raising his twenty-fourth Grand and eighth British Open. Such is his superiority that it seems that the track itself may be his only rival and that is that the Serbian had a run-in with the humidity and rain falling on the grass, which turned the match into a small circus for an hour and half.
At the end of the first set it began to spark in London and the chair umpire let them play until the end of the first set. This caused the court to become wet and despite the roof being closed as Djokovic took the first set 6-3, the complex’s heating system was unable to dry the court quickly. “It’s the first time something like this has happened since the roof was put up,” explained Djokovic, who assured that many parts of the track were still wet an hour after the match stopped.
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A task that normally takes about 20 minutes, this time it stretched out over an extravagant hour and a half with Djokovic himself helping to towel dry the court and tournament workers having to jump onto the court with giant blow dryers. . Although the show, luckily for him, did not lull the Serbian, who did not waver on his return to the field. The second set he took quickly and only in the third did he have any trouble reading Cachin’s serve, but he sentenced him in the ‘tie break’. Djokovic will now face Australian Jordan Thompson in the second round, who beat Brandon Nakashima in three sets.
Spaniards, in general good
For the Spanish ‘Armada’ the day of this Monday was quite prolific. In the men’s draw, only Albert Ramos, who lost on the fast track (6-1, 6-4 and 6-4) against Hubert Hurkacz and has ten consecutive defeats on the surface, left a negative note. Jaume Munar, for the second year in a row, surpassed his debut by beating the run-down American server John Isner 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and 6-4, while Roberto Bautista and Bernabé Zapata could not finish their matches due to lack of light and they had to go to the locker room with two sets to one lead each.
The Spanish Sara Sorribes celebrates with a gesture of rage her victory in the first round. efe
The greatest joys came in the women’s team, where Cristina Bucsa, Rebeka Masarova and Sara Sorribes ended their debuts with victory. Especially epic was that of Bucsa, who raised four match points against the Russian Kamill Rakhimova and defeated her 6-3, 4-6 and 7-6 (9). In the case of Sorribes, the woman from Castellón beat Martina Trevisan (6-3, 6-1) in their first grass match of the season, while Masarova forgot about the ugly fall in Bad Homburg last week and defeated the Egyptian Mayer Sherif 7-5, 3-6 and 7-6 (6).
2023-07-03 21:59:28
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