Novak Djokovicnumber 1 in the world, is on Italian soil to compete in the Rome Masters 1000, the last tournament in this category before it begins Roland Garros. He will debut on Friday against the winner of Roman Safiullin and a player who emerged from Qualy.
In this way, the Serbian will return to the circuit after almost a month. His last performance, after his absences in Barcelona and Madrid, had been on April 13 in the defeat in Monte-Carlo semis against Casper Ruud in three sets. Previously, the Belgrade native had defeated the Russian Roman Safiullininto Italian Lorenzo Musetti and to the Australian Alex De Minaur. In all three cases, he had advanced without giving up partials.
In the last weeks, Nole He was making several changes within his work team. In addition to having ended his relationship with Goran Ivanisevic, he recently announced that he was going to stop working with Marco Panichi, who was his physical trainer.
For now, the world number 1 arrived at the Foro Italico together with Nenad Zimonjicthe one in charge of accompanying him during the next tournaments.
With his participation in Italy there will be a peculiarity that, at some point, was a custom: after 16 months, the Serbian and Rafael Nadal will compete in the same tournament.
