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US Open 2021: Top-seeded Novak Djokovic cruises into quarter-finals after defeating Jenson Brooksby

In a rematch of the Wimbledon remaining, Djokovic will next meet sixth seed Matteo Berrettini.

Top-seeded Novak Djokovic cruises into quarter-finals after defeating Jenson Brooksby , US Open Twitter form out

Updated: Sep 7, 2021, 05: 13 PM IST

Novak Djokovic on Tuesday cruised into the quarter-finals of the US Open that build him true 9 sets some distance off from completing the calendar-yr Mammoth Slam.

The discontinuance-seed Serbian persevered a gruelling showdown below the lights against the World No. 99 Jenson Brooksby as he survived a bodily draining early fear against the American by 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in two hours and 58 minutes.

In a rematch of the Wimbledon remaining, Djokovic will next meet sixth seed Matteo Berrettini. The Italian earlier defeated German qualifier, Oscar Otte, in four sets.

Day 8 is in the

— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 7, 2021

Having already been taken to four sets by Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune and Kei Nishikori this campaign, it became once the third time in four suits he dropped the outlet set up of residing and the eighth time in 25 Mammoth Slam suits this yr he has done so and recovered to bag. No diversified man in the Open Expertise has matched the feat, as per atptour.com.

“Brooksby is a extraordinarily younger, very proficient player,” Djokovic stated on court after the victory, as per usopen.org. “I educated him on the web that a extraordinarily shiny future is previous to him. With out a doubt, he’s a immense player.”

“Jenson became once pumped, he had a clear game thought, he became once executing your whole shots very effectively, and I became once in actuality on my relieve foot,” Djokovic stated of his sluggish delivery. “I didn’t include the rhythm, made quite loads of unforced errors and he became once reading the play thoroughly for roughly a set up of residing and a half of.”

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