2023-07-06 23:11:01
Updated Thursday, July 6, 2023 – 23:11
They meet in the third round. The Swiss defeated him in two Grand Slam finals and usually battles him in top-ranking tournaments. “I played two amazing games, probably the best of my career”
Wawrinka volea ante Etcheverry.ADRIAN DENNISAFP
If you hadn’t intruded Stan Wawrinka in both Grand Slam finals, Novak Djokovic He will now have 25 majors. The Swiss, who this Friday meets Nole again, this time in the third round of Wimbledon, for the first time on grass, won Roland Garros in 2015 and a year later the United States Open, in both cases getting off the Balkan in the last station.
At that point in my career I was playing at a good level and I knew that every time I entered a court with Novak in a Grand Slam tournament I was capable of beating him. He had a powerful game from baseline, forehand, backhand, and was physically prepared to compete with him. He played two amazing games, probably the best two of my career, the Swiss evoked this Thursday, after beating Toms Martn Etcheverry by 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-2.
At 38 years old, 88, the oldest in the top 100, and with the scars from two operations on his left foot, in March and June 2021, which kept him away from competition for 12 months, Wawrinka knows that it will be more difficult for him. than ever against a rival that has chained 30 consecutive victories, is a seven-time tournament champion and has won the last four editions. He is the perfect player, he proclaims. If you look at him, everything makes it very clean. He plays the perfect shot at the right time. I love to see him play, as it happens to me with Roger [Federer]. The way he’s playing, serving, subtracting everything, he can do anything. I’m not surprised.
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Djokovic has beaten Wawrinka in 20 of their 26 meetings, but there have been four wins each in eight Grand Slam matches. Some of them had an epic component, such as the round of 16 of the 2013 Australian Open, with Djokovic’s victory 12-10 in the fifth, after five hours and two minutes, or the quarterfinals of that same tournament a year later, with the victory of the Helvetian. 9-7 also in the fifth.
Wimbledon is the only great to have escaped the hands of Wawrinka, who in 2014 defeated a diminished Nadal in the final of the Australian Open. Double quarterfinalist, in 2014 (Federer) and 2015 (Gasket), has in the Hertogenbosch final (Mahut), in 2013, his best result on grass. With the round of 16 in Indian Wells, with victory on the road against Holger Rune, as the most remarkable achievement of the year, makes the most of every moment in the last stretch of his career. I hope to have a competitive match and be there to make a fight. But be complicated.
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