Original title: Djokovic locked in the year-end No. 1 ranking for the eighth time
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Chu Peng
Yesterday, the group stage of the ATP Year-End Tennis Finals started. Serbian champion Djokovic and Denmark’s new star Rune battled fiercely in 3 sets. It took 3 hours to win with difficulty. Not only did he win his first victory in this year’s finals, he also gained points. Locked in the world’s No. 1 ranking at the end of the 2023 season. This is the eighth time in Djokovic’s career that he has been ranked No. 1 at the end of the year. Next, he will also hit the record of winning the year-end finals for the seventh time.
This season, Djokovic is in amazing form. He has only played 10 tournaments and won three Grand Slams including the Australian Open, French Open and US Open, as well as 6 tour championships including Cincinnati and Paris Masters. As of the finals, the Serbian football champion maintained an 18-game winning streak. In the first game of the finals, Djokovic and his opponent Rune had met 4 times before, each winning twice.
In this game, Djokovic was broken by Rune in the fifth game of the first set, and then he quickly broke back in the sixth game. After that, both sides successfully maintained serve, and the game was dragged into a tiebreaker. Djokovic led all the way in the tie-break and won the first set tie-break 7-4. Rune showed his physical advantage at the beginning of the second set and broke serve first. After that, Djokovic completed the break and the game entered the tiebreaker again. Rune took the lead in the tie-break this time and easily won the second set tie-break 7-1. In the final set, Djokovic showed his superb experience. After breaking serve first, Rune did not let Rune catch up with him again. After breaking serve again, Djokovic finally won the deciding set 6-3 and won the entire match.
In the end, in a match that lasted 3 hours and 04 minutes, Djokovic narrowly defeated Rune 7-6, 6-7 and 6-3, making a good start to the year-end finals. Djokovic successfully locked up this year’s ATP year-end No. 1 ranking. This is the eighth time in his career that he has won the year-end No. 1 ranking and continues to refresh his own record. Next, his new goal is to win the 2023 finals. Djokovic has previously played in the year-end finals 15 times, winning 6 crowns, 2 runner-ups and 3 semi-finals, with a total record of 46 wins and 17 losses. If Djokovic can win his seventh year-end finals title, he will surpass Federer’s current record of six titles.
2023-11-14 07:43:00
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