24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic started the Australian Open with a victory. In the first round match, the Serbian defeated Croatian representative Dino Prizmic with scores of 6:2, 6:7, 6:3, 6:4. This victory was his 90th victory in the tournament.
The duration of the meeting was 3 hours and 59 minutes. Djokovic served 11 times, committed a double fault and converted 8 of 17 break points won.
In the next round, Djokovic will face the winner of Alexey Popyrin (Australia) – Mark Polmans (Australia). Russians Pavel Kotov and Andrey Rublev had already advanced to the second round. Alexander Shevchenko could not defeat his opponent in his match.
The total prize fund of the tournament is $58.128 million.
Novak Djokovic (11,055 points) continues to lead the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings. Spanish Carlos Alcaraz ranks second with 8855 points. Daniil Medvedev (7555 points) is in the top three. Fifth is another Russian Andrey Rublev (5010 points). Zverev is sixth (4275 points).
Previously Kafelnikov named The chances of ending “Russian” in AO are zero.