Djokovic survives Simon in 4 hours and 32 min match

Tough day for Novak Djokovic that had to fight a 4 hours and 32 minutes’ battle against a sticky Simon in the Australian Open 4th round.

Nole was definitely not as sharp as usual and he appeared without much energy since the beginning of the encounter. Eventually his incredible class and grit allowed the Serb to win 6-3 6-7 (1)6-4 4-6 6-3.

Djokovic. Too many unforced errors

By the end of the match Djokovic committed 100 unforced errors and the world no.1 wasn’t pleased with that to comment “Too many unforced errors today. I’m going to make sure that I decrease that number at least more than half and hope for the best.”

 

Then talking about the immense number of drop shot he tried (and failed) he added “It would be interesting to see how many drop shot points I won.  It’s probably one out of 40, very low percentage. The person who shouted was absolutely right, as I said on the court.

But sometimes it works. It’s my game. As I said, I don’t think it can get much worse than this. A hundred unforced errors for a match is really tremendous for me, my style of the game. I’m aggressive but still like to construct the point.”


 

The quarters vs. Nishikori

Nole will play an in-form Nishikori in the quarters. Head to head is 5-2 for the world no.1, but Djokovic needs much more if he wants to get to the semis.

DJOKOVIC’S HALF     
                                 

 

NOT GREAT, BUT GOOD ENOUGH