For a total of 117 minutes, Slovak tennis player Andrej Martin resisted world unit Novak Djokovic at the ATP tournament in Belgrade, Serbia.
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The Slovak, who ranks 119th in the ATP rankings and already has the certainty of advancing to the 108th place, lost to the big favorite 1: 6, 6: 4, 0: 6 in the semifinals of the mentioned event. The Slovak representation will also have the second semifinal in Belgrade, in this phase the debutant Alex Molčan will challenge the eighth seeded Federico Delbonis from Argentina.
Andrej Martin lost his service twice in the first set of Friday’s match and lost 1: 6 in 38 minutes. He was much better at knowing in the second set, when he broke a “spider” unit in the second game.
He immediately lost the serve, but in an unfavorable 3: 4 condition, he reacted with a break to another loss of his opponent’s service and took Djokovic’s serve in the tenth game, forcing the third set with a second converted set.
In the third set, the favorite seemed to turn on higher speeds, allowed the Slovak to play only eight balls and in 26 minutes accompanied him with an unpopular “channel”, when he turned the first sword ball.
Thirty-year-old Bratislava Andrej Martin failed to make it to the second final of his career circuit, he premiered in July 2016 in Umag, Croatia, and was not good enough for Talian Fabio Fognini in the title race.
For both Friday’s opponents, Martin and Djokovic, the tournament in Belgrade is the general for the second grand slam tournament of the season Roland Garros, the main competition on Parisian clay will start on Sunday.
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