Update The head of Novak Djokovic did not really recent weeks to tennis. His marriage shortly after Wimbledon and impending fatherhood took him out of his concentration on the game. At Flushing Meadows, the number 1 in the ranking list was completely captivated. The Serb charged in the first round of the US Open quickly with his Argentine opponent Diego Schwartzman: 6-1 6-2 6-4.
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© AFP. “I am very satisfied,” Djokovic said after the party, which is thick and lasted a half hour in which he allowed his opponent little chance. Gave the counter after 24 winners for the Serbian seven-time grand slam winner, including seven aces. “The US Open nice smooth start is never easy.”
He acknowledged that there had been after his victory at Wimbledon. Many distractions “I was not so busy with tennis through all the events in my personal life. This is all new to me and my wife and we find it very exciting to get “a first child told the 27-year-old leader of the world.
The results in the run-up to the grand slam tournament in New York gave evidence for his vacillating state of mind. He won only two parties in the preparation tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati. “The last three weeks I was emotionally a little heavy. I did not feel comfortable on the job and did not like in my game. I was probably mentally not ready to fight. “Top level
The US Open is a different story. The winner of 2011 lived on as soon as he felt the hard courts of New York under the feet. “Here everything is different. I feel completely recharged me and ready to go for it. ” His first opponent was that the flesh. On Djokovic to prove that he is indeed back to normal. In the second round He shall take the Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu, who in the first round, needed five sets to the Luxembourger Gilles Muller to beat.
The Russian Maria Sharapova in the first round knew no mercy with her compatriot and friend Maria Kirilenko. After a difficult start, in which they came back 4-2 in the first set, she found her strength and then won 10 games in a row 6-4 6-0. “On the job, you face a competitor that you must defeat, friendship does not count,” the fifth-seeded Sharapova, who won the US Open in 2006, but failed due to injury last year. Her next opponent’s, the Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru.
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