New York (USA) – As if being one of the main favorites for the US Open title wasn’t enough, the Serbian Novak Djokovic has also provided himself with a very welcoming group, starting with his debut against the Frenchman Alexandre Muller, 26 years old and currently 85 years old. world, who has only two Grand Slam victories and is taking part in the tournament’s main draw for the first time.
Before the quarter-finals, the most dangerous rivals of “Nole”, in view of the classification, are the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, who is in a bad way, and the Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, who generally does better on clay only on hard. It’s only in the fifth game that the Serb will face a higher caliber opponent.
Most likely to challenge Djokovic in the quarter-finals is Stefanos Tsitsipas, who was unlucky and will face a major hurdle on his debut against Canadian Milos Raonic. The Greek still has two local tennis players who can give a lot of work, Taylor Fritz and Cristopher Eubanks, in addition to the Italian Lorenzo Musetti.
On the same side of the key, being able to cross the Serb in the semi-finals, also fell the Dane Holger Rune, who participates for the first time in a Grand Slam as seed 4 and makes his debut in the competition against the Spaniard Roberto Carballes, being able to face the Russian Aslan Karatsev or the Czech Jiri Lehecka in the second round.
Rune still faces Alexander Bublik or Dominik Thiem in the third round, Tommy Paul or Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the round of 16, and names like Casper Ruud, Sebastian Korda, Frances Tiafoe and even veteran Richard Gasquer on the outside, in a possible game on Wednesday.
Novak Djokovic returns to the US Open with Stefanos Tsitsipas, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Taylor Fritz sharing his quarter. pic.twitter.com/3rdBwHxZIs
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