Novak Djokovic He will have to return to the center court this Monday after his game against Poland Hubert Hurkacz At Wimbledon, 7-6 (6) and 7-6 (6) were stopped with the advantage of the Serbian tennis player, due to the municipal regulation that does not allow matches to be played at Wimbledon after 23:00 (12.00). in Spain).
The match was suspended before the start of the third set with 29 minutes left in the scheduled time to allow the residents of Wimbledon to rest. Djokovic And hurkacz The first women among them will return to the center after the quarter-final match to continue the game from where they left off. Elena Rybakina And Beatriz Haddad Maia (14:30, Movistar). This will delay the game closing the day in between. Carlos Alcaraz and Matteo Berrettini.
Decisive draw ends
Djokovic He managed to win both sets in the ‘tie break’. hurkacz, He said he still hasn’t lost a serve in the tournament and is keeping his finger on his pulse this Sunday thanks to his strong serve (23 ‘aces’ and 81% of points in the first serve). Djokovic managed to break the balance in two ‘tie breaks’.
In the first, the Polish tennis player was against 5-4 and made two serves. Before the ‘tie break’ in the second set Djokovic Hurkacz had a 0-40 save with his serve and another “breaking point” where Djokovic missed the volley while touching the net.
Fabulous Rublev
Andrey Rublev Won first quarter-final at Wimbledon after beating Kazakh Alexander bublik 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (5) and 6-4. The Russian tennis player (7th in the world) avenged the final in Stuttgart, which he lost to Bublik a few weeks ago. On this occasion, after 3 hours and 20 minutes, he managed to beat one of the most extraordinary players of the circuit (26th in the world), Capable of getting 39 ‘aces’ and 67 winners, as he did this Sunday. Although not enough.
Rublev victorious after wasting two ‘match balls’ at 5-4 in the fourth set, but the serve was held by Bublik. The Kazakh tennis player came back two sets from behind, won the next two in a tie break and forced the fifth by Rublev (4-3) after a single timeout. And did it with an amazing spot this gave him the ‘match ball’ that Rublev had won as he fell onto the grass, surprising Bublik, who thought he had scored with a seemingly unreachable backstroke.
Jannik Sinner (8) defeated Colombian Galán Daniel Elahi (85) 7-6 (4) to advance to the quarterfinals again. 6-4 and 6-3, if Russian Roman Safiullin (92) Eliminated Canada DEnis Shapovalov (29) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 and 6-3.
Swiatek ‘to the extreme’
Before the match of the current world number 1 Djokovic, Iga Swiatek Had to fight for 3 hours and 4 minutes before beating Switzerland Belinda Bencic (14) 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2) and 6-3. Polish tennis player saves two ‘match balls’ 6-5 against the Olympic champion before breaking the ‘tie break’.