Watch: Novak Djokovic kicks off new season with win over Shapovalov at ATP Cup

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Novak Djokovic celebrates after defeating Denis Shapovalov in Melbourne on Tuesday.
New yr, similar Novak 💪@DjokerNole picks up the place he left off, with ANOTHER #ATPCup win: 7-5 7-5 over a resilient Shapovalov pic.twitter.com/4M6mIhxNlb— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) February 2, 2021

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic began 2021 season on a great observe as he defeated Denis Shapovalov within the group phases of ATP Cup 7-5, 7-5, in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Despite a straight-set win, it wasn’t a cakewalk for the Serb because the duo fought tooth and nail with the 2 staying on the serve for the primary 11 video games. It was Djokovic who broke the Canadian’s serve within the twelfth recreation after which received the subsequent level to take one-set lead.

The second turned out to be an motion replay of the primary one with the 17-time Grand Slam winner missed an early likelihood to interrupt. However, he broke Shapovalov within the final recreation of the set, with a forehand passing shot up the road to shut it out after an hour and 53 minutes.
With the win, Djokovic head-to-head report towards Shapovalov now stands at six to nothing.
“It’s a great opening of the season. I hope all of you that came today enjoyed it, because I certainly did,” the Serb mentioned in his on-court interview. “It was a really shut match. Playing Shapo is all the time an amazing problem. On exhausting courts he’s such a dynamic, explosive participant and really gifted—he has an amazing future forward of him, that’s for positive. And I assumed we each performed on a extremely excessive degree immediately.
“I’m very pleased with how I started this season.”