Novak Djokovic He threatened but kept the crack prepared against Roland Garros due to the scheduling of the matches in a week of constant rain in Paris. The liberation and satisfaction of the personal feat was more important to him than the annoyance of an effort that almost cost him elimination and that puts his physical condition on hold for how long there is still left of the event.
The champion and world number one bit his tongue, but he keeps it to the organization in case the wear and tear of finishing after three in the morning takes its toll later on. This Sunday he will be able to recover, on Monday he will have to face the Argentine in the round of 16 Francisco Cerúndolo.
Djokovic came back to Lorenzo Musetti 7-5, 6-7 (6), 2-6, 6-3 and 6-0. Four and a half hours of battle. “Physically I went to the limit. When you play a point of more than twenty strokes at two in the morning… Who plays tennis at two in the morning? We played few matches of this type in our lives. The conditions were heavy , slow. It was very cold. You had to work on each point, there was nothing free with the serve,” he analyzed.
And he pointed to Roland Garros: “Certain aspects could have been managed differently,” he said, whose anger at having started the match at 10:30 p.m., since they put an extra match ahead in the center on the fly, was mitigated by the success.
“There is a certain beauty in winning a game at three in the morning, but if it were the last, and it is not the case. I will try to recover as quickly as possible,” he said Novak Djokovic 37 years old and 24 Grand Slam titles under his belt, three in Paris.
For now he is holding back on his criticism, but it depends on what price he has to pay in the future.
