It is one thing to win two sets in a Grand Slam match. He said he was, but rose slowly and walked to his chair to dust himself off as the chair umpire picked up his racket.ĭjokovic returned to the court a minute later but slowly, and from that moment on, he was not moving the way he normally does. Tsitsipas and the chair umpire approached to see if he was OK. He stayed on the clay for several seconds. Djokovic sprinted for it and stretched to get his strings on it, but as the ball hit the clay a second time, Djokovic lost his footing and tumbled to the clay, just missing a collision with the thick post that holds up the net. Then Tsitsipas hit a drop shot that landed just a few feet from the net. The match was tight, but it wasn’t close. Tsitsipas had saved himself with four early aces. The score was tied, 3-3, but Djokovic had yet to lose a point on his serve, and he had put pressure on Tsitsipas during his service games. Two days later, it turned out, he had to scale K2.ĭjokovic appeared to be on cruise control until midway through the first set. Djokovic compared beating Nadal at Roland Garros to climbing Mount Everest. He is now the only male player of the modern era to have won every Grand Slam tournament twice.Īnd yet Sunday’s final was anything but a coronation, even if at first it looked like it would be. The title was Djokovic’s second at a French Open.
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