Novak Djokovic has already overtaken Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the other two members of the ‘Big Three’, in terms of Grand Slam wins. This time, Joker has started sharing Rafa-Roger’s other record and Djokovic achieved this feat by defeating his French opponent Adrian Mannarin at the Australian Open.
For example, Djokovic touched two records of two tennis legends by winning a match at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday. He reached the last eight of the Australian Open by beating French opponent Adrian Mannarin 6-0, 6-0, 6-3. The record-top of playing the quarter-finals 58 times in the four tennis majors, which was held by a FedEx student for a long time, today Joker. Among them, he reached the last eight only in the Australian Open 14 times. which is the second highest. The Serbian legend is now in the same sari with Rafa and John Newcombe. Djokovic had to fight for about ten hours in the first three rounds. On this day, however, he won the match in just one hour and 44 minutes.
On this day, however, Djokovic could be the owner of another rare achievement. The tennis world has only seen a ‘triple bagel’ (a 6-0 win in all three sets) five times before on the Grand Slam stage of the Open era. Djokovic is not happy even if it is not for a little bit. Rather, during the third set, the opposition of the audience increased so much that he thought the set was lost. “In the third set, the pressure was on to win every game. The spectators all wanted my opponent to win a game and stay in the match. At one point, I thought I would lose. Then I started fighting again in the fourth set. At that time, I could not think properly about my winning words,” Djokovic said.
Djokovic‘s opponent in the semifinals is Taylor Fritz. This American tennis player and last time’s runner surprised Stefanos Tistipas by defeating him 7-6(7-3), 5-7, 6-3, 6-3. This is the first time Taylor has won a Grand Slam against a top ten opponent. However, Djokovic has defeated world number 12 Taylor every time in the last eight meetings.
Janik Sinner and Andrey Rublov won on this day. However, in the women’s category, Mira Andreva’s dream run ended when she lost to Barbara Krecikova. Has not won against Krecikova twice before. But this day he lost in 6-4, 3-6, 2-6 sets. Second seed Eryna Sabalenka reached the last eight with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Amanda Anisimova.