Nole has turn into simply the third participant to document 100 match-wins at Wimbledon, after 9-time champion Martina Navratilova and 8-time champion Roger Federer.
The all-Serbian third-round match at Wimbledon went to Novak Djokovic, who beat the 13-years-younger Miomir Kecmanovic on Saturday night with a dominant 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 victory. With this triumph, Novak reached his a centesimal profession win on the most prestigious tennis event on the planet.
The match lasted only one hour and 47 minutes. Novak confirmed as soon as once more that he’s in nice kind and simply booked his place within the fourth spherical.
Identical to in his earlier matches at this 12 months’s event, Djokovic served very well.
The primary set lasted 40 minutes. The important thing second got here within the eighth recreation when the sixth seed broke Kecmanovic’s serve and went up 5-3. He then held serve to win the set 6-3. Novak hit 22 winners and made simply six unforced errors on this set.
The second set was one-sided. The seven-time Wimbledon champion fully dominated, profitable six video games in a row – for a “bagel” 6-0. He gained 24 factors in that set, whereas Kecmanovic took simply seven. Novak hit 13 winners and made solely two errors.
Within the third set, there was a little bit of drama. Djokovic went up 5–1 with two breaks however let his opponent come again to 5-4. Nonetheless, Djokovic held his nerve and served out the match with no drawback, profitable in straight units.
“I’m very grateful, privileged to be within the place that I’m,” Djokovic mentioned when requested about his a centesimal win. “I’ve mentioned it many instances. Tennis made me who I’m. It has given me issues in life that I can expertise. I strive to not take something with no consideration, notably at this age. I’m nonetheless going robust, attempting to compete with the younger gamers and do some slides and a few splits on the court docket. Wimbledon is a favorite event and dream event of not simply myself however in all probability the vast majority of tennis gamers. Rising up a lot of the children dream of enjoying right here and profitable right here and I’m blessed to have completed it a number of instances. Any historical past that I make at my favorite event, I’m blessed.”
Within the subsequent spherical on Monday, Novak will face Alex de Minaur (2-1 H2H), the no.11 seed from Australia.
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