Novak Djokovic’s path to increase his Australian Open titles to 11 has come to an finish, after struggling defeat to Jannik Sinner within the semifinals6-1 6-2 6-7(6) 6-3.
Djokovic’s devastating loss to Sinner in Australian Open
The loss to Sinner makes Djokovic’s first at Melbourne Park since 2018 and the primary time he’s ever misplaced this deep into the match. And he did so in horrible style, with one of many worst matches of his profession up to now.
Djokovic completed the match with 54 unforced errors to simply 32 winners. Within the first set, he landed simply 43% of his first serves and made two double faults and 15 unforced errors. It was solely the third time ever that Djokovic had misplaced 1-6 on the Australian Open and the primary time since 2013. Within the second set, he had 14 unforced errors to simply six winners.
He did appear to be he could pull a Wimbledon and are available again within the third set, making his first aces of the match. They reached a tiebreak and Djokovic sealed the set. Within the fourth, Djokovic saved three break factors, however Sinner broke on the subsequent sport to take a 3-1 lead and finally sealed the win with an enormous forehand winner, defeating Djokovic and transferring on to the finals.
Sinner will face the winner of Friday night time’s different semifinal between Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev.
Djokovic didn’t take it effectively, at one level slamming his tennis racquet into the microphone on the umpire’s chair. His disappointment in himself was apparent in his publish match press convention.
“Sinner outplayed me fully,” stated Djokovic. “I used to be shocked by my stage. This is likely one of the worst Grand Slam matches I’ve ever performed. He did every little thing higher than me.”
