Djokovic raises the level against Zapata to advance in New York

Carballés falls epicly against Aslan Karatsev

Sorribes and Masarova, eliminated against forecast

MADRID, 30 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic signed a solid victory (6-4, 6-1, 6-1) this Wednesday against the Spanish Bernabé Zapata in the second round of the US Open, the last ‘big’ of the season from which Roberto Carballés also said goodbye and, in the women’s draw, the Spanish Sara Sorribes and Rebeka Masarova.

The number one in the world, a peak that he recovered by winning his debut in New York, preferred not to trust another Spaniard on his way, for the first time seeing a rival for the Valencian. “The Spaniards never die,” Carlos Alcaraz told him after Cincinnati, to which the Serb replied with “he had suffered before”, thinking of Rafa Nadal.

‘Nole’ wanted a win on the fast track and did not give a chance to a Zapata who fought the first set and the start of the third. The Serb suffered more from the heat of the day session, the sun and the humidity in the Arthur Ashe, but the Spaniard did not take advantage of a good entry into the match. The first option to break was for Zapata, but as in the rest of the game, he did not hit the ‘break’ balls (0/6).

The man from Belgrade did break in the fifth game and took enough advantage to take the lead (6-4). The Spanish’s resistance collapsed early in the second set against a Djokovic who raised the level and signed a 6-1 without discussion. Zapata let himself go and used his forces in the attack of the third set that did not give him a break either, despite four options in two turns.

Instead, the champion of 23 ‘big’ broke in a 3-1 that turned into another forceful set at the US Open. The Serbian, absent last year still harmed by his non-vaccination against the coronavirus, returns to New York wanting to eat the ‘Big Apple’. His opponent in the third round will be his compatriot Laslo Djere.

On the other hand, the also Spanish Roberto Carballés was left with honey on his lips in his defeat against the Russian Aslan Karatsev by 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4). The canary had it in his hand to force the fifth set after saving four match points, but Karatsev reacted in time from a momentary debacle to prevent Carballés from playing a ‘big’ third round for the second time.

The day was not good for Spanish tennis in the women’s draw either, since they were left without representation with the defeats of Sorribes and Masarova. The woman from Castellón, recent champion in Cleveland, suffered a comeback from China’s Xinyu Wang 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in almost three hours of play and a vibrant third set.

Meanwhile, a Masarova also with reason to believe after her first-round win against eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece, relented (7-6(0), 6-2) against Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in search of her best. result in ‘Grand Slam’.

2023-08-30 20:53:49
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