Tennis hit at the Olympics
Automatically saved draft
What a gala from Novak Djokovic! Serbia's tennis superstar didn't give his Spanish rival Rafael Nadal the slightest chance in the second round of the Olympic tennis tournament in Paris. His dream of Olympic gold, which he still lacks, thus lives on.
In the end it was 6:1 and 6:4 from Djokovic's point of view.
Tension only in set two
After suffering another thigh injury, the 38-year-old Nadal was unable to really challenge Djokovic, who is a year younger. The Spaniard only came back from 0:4 to 4:4 in the second set, but still had to admit defeat.
For a long time on Court Philippe Chatrier, it looked like Djokovic would put on a show of strength and dismantle the king of clay. It was only at the end that the 60th duel between the two became gripping. In his inimitable manner, Nadal started to catch up in what was possibly his last singles appearance in Paris, but in the end it was not crowned with success. Djokovic, who played largely error-free, took the next break for 5:4 and served out with an ace after 1:44 hours.
Nadal still in the doubles
However, the Olympics are not yet over for Nadal. On Tuesday, he and his seventeen years younger compatriot Carlos Alcaraz will compete in the doubles round of 16. The Serb, who is aiming for the Olympic gold he craves in Paris, will continue in the singles round of 16 against the German Dominik Koepfer, who defeated the Italian Matteo Arnaldi in three sets 3:6, 6:2 and 6:1. Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas and Norway's Casper Ruud also advanced to the round of 16.
This article has been automatically translated,
read the original article here.
Kommentare
Willkommen in unserer Community! Eingehende Beiträge werden geprüft und anschließend veröffentlicht. Bitte achten Sie auf Einhaltung unserer Netiquette und AGB. Für ausführliche Diskussionen steht Ihnen ebenso das krone.at-Forum zur Verfügung. Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.
User-Beiträge geben nicht notwendigerweise die Meinung des Betreibers/der Redaktion bzw. von Krone Multimedia (KMM) wieder. In diesem Sinne distanziert sich die Redaktion/der Betreiber von den Inhalten in diesem Diskussionsforum. KMM behält sich insbesondere vor, gegen geltendes Recht verstoßende, den guten Sitten oder der Netiquette widersprechende bzw. dem Ansehen von KMM zuwiderlaufende Beiträge zu löschen, diesbezüglichen Schadenersatz gegenüber dem betreffenden User geltend zu machen, die Nutzer-Daten zu Zwecken der Rechtsverfolgung zu verwenden und strafrechtlich relevante Beiträge zur Anzeige zu bringen (siehe auch AGB). Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.