US Open 2021: Novak Djokovic begins calendar 12 months Grand Slam bid with win over Dutch teenager

Top seed Novak Djokovic, who’s making an attempt to finish the primary calendar-year Grand Slam in males’s tennis since 1969, gained the match 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1 to undergo to the second spherical. Djokovic is trying to turn out to be the primary Grand Slam winner in males’s tennis since 1969. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTS Djokovic is making an attempt to finish the primary calendar-year Grand Slam in males’s tennis since 1969Rune, his opponent on Wednesday, is an 18-year-old qualifier and is ranked 145th on the planetDjokovic gained the match 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1 to undergo to the second spherical.Novak Djokovic has began his bid for a calendar 12 months Grand Slam on the US Open with a four-set victory over Danish teenager Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune. Djokovic gained the match 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1 to undergo to the second spherical.

The top-seeded Djokovic is making an attempt to finish the primary calendar-year Grand Slam in males’s tennis since 1969 and acquire a record-breaking twenty first main singles championship.Rune, his opponent on Wednesday, is an 18-year-old qualifier and is ranked 145th on the planet. He began having issues with cramps within the third set.”It wasn’t the best of my performances,” Djokovic acknowledged, “But at the same time, he played well in the second set when it mattered.”Earlier on Day 2, the top-seeded girls’s singles participant, Ashleigh Barty, made a profitable return to Flushing Meadows, the location of one of many two Grand Slam tournaments she has but to win.The greatest holdup for Barty throughout her 6-1, 7-6 (7) victory over 2010 US Open runner-up Vera Zvonareva got here early within the first set, when there was a delay of greater than 5 minutes as a result of the Hawk-Eye Live digital line-calling system went down when a TV digital camera wasn’t working.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.