Thomaz Bellucci is an excellent clay court player, but not that great to bagel (6-0) the world no.1 Novak Djokovic in the 1st set in Rome. This is exactly what has happened yesterday night in the 3rd round with the big surprise of the entire tennis community. Then, things got a bit more normal, with Djokovic winning the match 0-6 6-3 6-2 in 1 hour and 37 minutes. 

Djokovic. He blew me away… 

Nole commented “After the first set I had to change. The first set was a complete Bellucci storm, and I was blown away from the court. Fortunately, the matches are played in best of three, so I had another opportunity to come back and to restart, which I did.” 

… the crucial moment was the 1st game of the 2nd set 

Them Djokovic added “The crucial game was the first game of the second set where I held my serve, and then I felt that things started to go my way as I tactically changed certain things, started to change the pace, get him on the move from one corner to another, with a little bit of a shorter and longer variety of balls. And it worked well,” 

The quarters vs. Nadal