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  • Djokovic’s followers in Serbia protest his detention in Australia

    Hundreds of Novak Djokovic’s supporters gathered at a rally in downtown Belgrade on Friday to protest his confinement in Australia after his entry was denied by border authorities due to COVID-19 vaccination rules.
    The top-ranked Serb, who hopes to defend his title on the Australian Open and win a males’s document twenty first Grand Slam singles title, was denied entry when he arrived at Melbourne’s airport on Wednesday and was nonetheless in an immigration detention resort awaiting a courtroom listening to scheduled for Monday to problem his deportation.
    The detention has triggered anger amongst Djokovic’s followers in his native Serbia, along with his household calling for protests till he’s launched.

    Speaking on the rally, Srdjan Djokovic described his son’s battle to play on the Australian Open as a combat in opposition to “globalists who want to ruin everything.”

    Happening Now: A protest in Belgrade, Serbia, in help of letting unvaccinated Novak Djokovic play within the Australian Open. pic.twitter.com/qGrrlRZFkE
    — The Recount (@therecount) January 7, 2022

    “He is fighting for himself, his people and all freedom-loving nations in the world,” mentioned Srdjan Djokovic, an outspoken critic of the West and supporter of Serbia’s conventional Slavic ally Russia. “They hate him because Australian politicians have put pressure on people to hate him because he thinks with his own brain.”

    Djokovic’s father additionally mentioned Australians “have been in captivity for two years” in reference to the strict lockdown coronavirus measures which have been in place in Melbourne.

    Novak Djokovic’s dad:
    “This isn’t a battle for Serbia and Novak. This is a battle for 7 billion people.They want to subdue us, they want us all on our knees. It won’t fly.”
    pic.twitter.com/v1qolTy3tb
    — 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) January 7, 2022

    Serbia’s Prime Minister has instructed Sky News that Novak Djokovic is a sufferer of ‘political persecution’ after Australia cancelled his visa utility.
    Latest on the Serbian world primary: https://t.co/rQp4DgjOqs pic.twitter.com/el0ePtsqTU
    — Sky News (@SkyNews) January 6, 2022
    “He (Djokovic) is in prison, not in custody, not in a hotel. They took away all his things, took away his wallet, and returned it to him after a few hours,” Srdjan Djokovic mentioned as the group chanted “Monsters, Monsters.”

    He mentioned the Australian authorities “wanted to humiliate and throw him to his knees.”
    Australian officers initially mentioned Djokovic, a vocal skeptic of vaccines who has refused to say if he has gotten the COVID-19 shot, could be given an exemption to stringent vaccine guidelines by state authorities and be capable of take part within the Australian Open. But when he landed, his visa was canceled by federal border officers and he’s now in an immigration detention resort whereas he fights the choice.

  • Australian Open 2021 finalist Jennifer Brady loses in first spherical of Qatar Open

    Image Source : AP Australian Open 2021 finalist Jennifer Brady 
    Jennifer Brady misplaced in her first match for the reason that Australian Open remaining, falling to Anett Kontaveit 6-1, 6-2 Monday within the first spherical of the Qatar Open.
    Brady, who misplaced to Naomi Osaka in her first main remaining simply over per week in the past, made 25 unforced errors towards her Estonian opponent. Kontaveit had solely 9 unforced errors and did not face a single break level towards the seventh-seeded American.

    “I was expecting a very, very tough match but I’m very happy with the way I played and very pleased to get to the second round,” Kontaveit mentioned.
    Kontaveit will play both three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber or wild-card entry Cagla Buyukakcay of Turkey within the second spherical.

  • Novak Djokovic proper to give attention to Federer, Nadal and the Grand Slam report

    It didn’t take lengthy for Novak Djokovic to make his intentions clear: All that issues to him from right here on out is catching Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal within the Grand Slam standings.
    Forget about successful different, run-of-the-mill tournaments or enjoying sufficient to retain the No. 1 rating.

    18 Grand Slams for Djokovic 🏆
    This race is tight… 👀 #AusOpen pic.twitter.com/yd7e8bkPeN
    — ATP Tour (@atptour) February 21, 2021
    There is one major objective for the 33-year-old from Serbia. He desires to maintain including to his 18 main championships — he reached that quantity with No. 9 on the Australian Open on Sunday — till he now not trails Federer and Nadal, who share the lads’s report of 20.
    “They’ve made history already. They made a tremendous mark in our sport,” Djokovic stated. “Whether I think about winning more Slams and breaking records? Of course, I do. And most of my attention and my energy from this day forward, until I retire from tennis, is going to be directed (at) majors, trying to win more major trophies.”
    Which is completely effective. There isn’t any want for pretense.
    And there may be completely no requirement that he present as much as compete extra usually than he actually desires or in locations apart from the place he actually desires. If all that issues to Djokovic from a tennis standpoint is accumulating Slams, and enjoying much less steadily will even shield his physique — he had surgical procedure on his proper elbow three years in the past; his 2021 Australian Open almost was derailed by what he stated was a torn belly muscle — that’s his prerogative.
    It isn’t a lot totally different from what Federer himself or 23-time main champion Serena Williams, for that matter, have finished for years.
    “I think 99.9% of players — kids that get a racket in their hands — start dreaming about what they want to achieve. It’s a Grand Slam, winning a major,” Djokovic defined after his commanding efficiency in a 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Daniil Medvedev within the ultimate at Melbourne Park.

    It’s all in regards to the Slams 🏆#AusOpen | #AO2021 | @DjokerNole pic.twitter.com/ZjZjNpTe4p
    — #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) February 21, 2021
    “I mean, I don’t feel like I’m old or tired or anything like that,” he stated. “But I know that biologically and realistically, things are different than they were 10 years ago for me.”
    Connected to that: His newest triumph on the Australian Open got here with the extra bonus of assuring a keep atop the ATP rankings till no less than March 8.
    That is when he’ll attain 311 weeks at No. 1 for his profession, yet one more than Federer’s whole, one other goal Djokovic made clear mattered to him.
    “When you are going for No. 1 rankings, you kind of have to be playing the entire season, and you have to be playing well; you have to play all the tournaments. My goals will adapt and will shift a little bit, which means that I will have to adjust, also, my calendar,” Djokovic stated. “Not have to, but I will have an opportunity to do that, which, as a father and a husband, I’m really looking forward to.”
    READ | Already a star, on court docket and off, Naomi Osaka eyes extra
    One a part of the calculus is that nobody is aware of, in fact, whether or not Federer, who hasn’t performed in additional than a 12 months after two knee operations and turns 40 in August, or Nadal, 34, will win extra majors — or what number of extra.
    It bears repeating that till Federer, Nadal and Djokovic got here alongside, no man had gained greater than Pete Sampras’ 14 Grand Slam titles. Here we’re, lower than 20 years after Sampras retired, and he’s been surpassed by a trio of males, and by quite a lot of majors.
    “We’re talking about some Cyborgs of tennis, in a good way,” Medvedev stated, referring to the longevity and unprecedented success of the blokes often known as the Big Three. “They’re just unbelievable.”

    Winning share in Grand Slam singles finals
    Nadal 20-8 (71.4%)Federer 20-11 (64.5%)Djokovic 18-10 (64.3%) pic.twitter.com/RzsCU6a05k
    — Christopher Clarey (@christophclarey) February 21, 2021
    Djokovic’s coach, 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic, predicted Nadal will declare “one more, maybe two” championships on the French Open, the place he collected a thirteenth final October.
    That is the one occasion of a person proudly owning extra singles titles from one main than Djokovic’s haul in Australia. Federer’s excessive is eight at Wimbledon.
    All have profession Grand Slams.
    “Roger and Rafa inspire me. That’s something that I’ve said before. I’ll say it again. I mean, I think as long as they go, I’ll go,” Djokovic stated. “In a way, it’s like a race (of) who plays tennis more, I guess, and who wins more. It’s a competition between us in all areas. But I think that’s the very reason why we are who we are, because we do drive each other, we motivate each other, we push each other to the limit.”

  • In Numbers: All the stats behind Novak Djokovic’s report ninth Australian Open haul at Melbourne Park

    Image Source : AP Novak Djokovic
    In a interval of uncertainty throughout the globe, sure elements in tennis have remained the identical – Rafael Nadal profitable on the French Open and Novak Djokovic on the Australian Open. The World No.1, along with his formidable serving, spectacular returning, and baseline supremacy, tamed a annoyed Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday to finish a hat-trick of trophies on the Melbourne Park, and bag a record-extending ninth Australian Open title and 18th Grand Slam trophy. 

    Djokovic made his intentions clear firstly of the match, breaking Medvedev early within the second recreation earlier than the Russian fought again to proceed the set on serve. Djokovic finally broke Medvedev within the twelfth recreation to race away to a 0-40 lead and wrapped up the set. The Russian did not bounce again within the successive units, leaving the relentless Serb to inch nearer to his ninth title. 

    “There are a lot of mixed feelings in the last month over tennis players coming to Australia,” Djokovic mentioned after his win. “It wasn’t easy, it was challenging on many levels – [but] thanks to the organisers for making it happen.” The champion saved his ultimate phrases for the Rod Laver Arena: “every day, I love you more and more.”

    18 Grand Slam titles for Djokovic which nonetheless retains him third within the all-time checklist after 20 every from Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. This is the closest he has stood to Federer’s Grand Slam tally in his profession.

    59 ATP titles combining Masters 1000, Nitto ATP title and majors, which additional consolidates his place atop with Nadal standing second with 56 and Federer with 54. 

    82 is Djokovic’s current tally of tour-level titles, which is the fifth most amongst Open Era male gamers after Jimmy Connors (109), Federer (103), Ivan Lendl (94) and Nadal (86). 

    9 titles on the Australian Open is probably the most for any participant within the historical past of the sports activities, extending his personal report atop, now standing three forward of Federer and Roy Emerson with six every. He gained titles in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021. 

    9-0 is Djokovic’s win-loss ratio on the Australian Open ultimate, which is the second-best for any participant at a single Grand Slam ultimate after Nadal’s 13-0 on the French Open ultimate. In ATP tour, it stands third after Nadal’s one other tally of 11-0 within the Barcelona Open. 

    2 Djokovic now stands second within the checklist of most titles gained at a single Grand Slam occasion, with solely Nadal’s unimaginable tally of 13 French Open trophies atop. Federer’s tally of eight Wimbledon titles stands third adopted by Pete Sampras’ run of seven trophies on the SW19. 

    6 Djokovic has now equalled Nadal’s report for many majors gained after turning 30. Nadal had earlier surpassed the Serb to take the highest spot along with his thirteenth French Open title final September. Serena holds the report with 10 titles after turning 30. 

  • Australian Open 2021: Novak Djokovic thrashes Daniil Medvedev to clinch 18th Grand Slam title

    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Novak Djokovic exults after successful some extent towards Daniil Medvedev on the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Sunday.
    Novak Djokovic has crushed Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 to win his ninth Australian Open championship and 18th Grand Slam title.

    The No. 1-seeded Djokovic has received the trophy three years in a row at Melbourne Park.

    He has received six of the final 10 main tournaments total and his whole of 18 Slams strikes him inside two of the lads’s report of 20 shared by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

    The No. 4-seeded Medvedev was making an attempt to gather his first Grand Slam title Sunday.

    But Djokovic used excellent serving and his common baseline excellence to finish the Russian’s 20-match successful streak.

    Medvedev additionally had received his previous 12 matches towards Top 10 opponents.

  • Already a star, on courtroom and off, Naomi Osaka eyes extra

    Naomi Osaka already is a star at age 23. She has the 4 Grand Slam titles, the record-breaking endorsement offers and the willingness to talk her thoughts to show it.
    Now the query is: Where does she go from right here?
    It was telling that the second query posed to Osaka on the information convention following her 6-4, 6-3 victory over Jennifer Brady within the Australian Open remaining Saturday — after she took a sip of celebratory bubbly that she stated made her “feel a little bit funny” — was about delivering higher performances at Wimbledon and the French Open.
    After all, every of her main championships to date got here on exhausting courts at Melbourne Park (2019, 2021) or the U.S. Open (2018, 2020). She by no means has been previous the third spherical on the All England Club or Roland Garros.
    Even extra revealing was Osaka’s response.
    Asked whether or not her first non-hard-court Slam trophy will come on clay or grass, she stated: “Hopefully clay, because it’s the one that’s sooner.”
    She will not be about biding her time or affected person enchancment.

    Fourth main title: ✅@naomiosaka‘s rise to the highest ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Ie1YN7sxZR
    — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 20, 2021
    And she’s been desirous about the place she wants to enhance.
    “It was one of her goals this year to play well outside of the hard courts. She’s still very young. It’s time to grow on those surfaces. She also believes she can do well and, I’m sure, with the right preparation, with a few, maybe, tactical (and) technical adjustments, we’re going to do well,” stated her coach, Wim Fissette. “She’s the person that wants to grow.”
    Part of what makes Osaka particular is embracing challenges and realizing what she stands for.
    That’s been the case off the courtroom and on.
    With a racket in her hand, it’s about, as Fissette put it, with the ability to “love big matches and big moments.”
    Osaka needed to face 23-time main champion Serena Williams within the semifinals, for instance.
    No concern there.

    Naomi Osaka overcame these deficits en path to her 4 Grand Slam titles 🤯 @espnW
    (h/t @BastienFachan) pic.twitter.com/C7LOKcRSFt
    — ESPN (@espn) February 20, 2021
    “She was like when I bring my kids to the toy store: They are very excited. And Naomi was excited to go on court with Serena. It’s just beautiful to see,” Fissette stated. “At the end, this is what you train for, right? To be on the biggest stage with the best player of all time, Serena.”
    Away from the sport, Osaka says, it took time to search out her voice and categorical her views.
    She was born in Japan to a Japanese mom and Haitian father, and she or he moved to the United States when she was 3. Last August, she was the primary tennis professional to hitch athletes from different sports activities in strolling out to protest the police capturing of a Black man in Wisconsin.
    “Before I am an athlete,” Osaka tweeted on the time, “I am a black woman.”
    On her option to the U.S. Open title in September, Osaka wore masks bearing the names of seven Black victims of violence to attract consideration to racism and police brutality.

    Absolute insanity. quantity 4 #ausopen pic.twitter.com/cjFNcl7iQH
    — NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@naomiosaka) February 20, 2021
    On Saturday, Osaka was requested whether or not there was a message she needed related together with her newest triumph, which made her 4 for 4 in Slam finals.
    “Honestly, for me, when everything happened in New York, I got really scared, because I felt like it put me into this light that was a non-athletic light that I’ve never been in before,” she stated. “So I feel like there is a lot of topics that people suddenly started asking me about that I completely didn’t know about at all. For me, I only like to talk when I’m knowledgeable about the subject or at least know, like, one tiny grain of what I’m about to start talking about. So for me, I just came into this tournament just thinking purely about tennis.”
    And but, within the aftermath of profitable the trophy, she was prepared to consider a bigger function, too.
    Many checked out her win in opposition to Williams as a passing of the mantle. Osaka additionally received their assembly within the 2018 U.S. Open remaining — who might neglect that one? — and has eclipsed the 39-year-old American because the highest-earning feminine athlete due to tens of millions in sponsorship offers.
    But to Osaka, Williams continues to be, and at all times will likely be, an idol and an inspiration, a participant whose instance she needed to observe.
    And one of the best ways to repay that, Osaka figures, is to carry that function for others.
    “Hopefully I play long enough to play a girl that said that I was once her favorite player or something,” Osaka stated. “For me, I think that’s the coolest thing that could ever happen to me. … That’s how the sport moves forward.”

  • Australian Open 2021 Men’s Final Live Streaming: When and the place to observe Djokovic vs Medvedev

    Australian Open 2021 Men’s Final Live Score Streaming: Novak Djokovic is aiming to win his ninth Australian Open championship and 18th Grand Slam title general when he takes on Daniil Medvedev within the males’s ultimate at Rod Laver Arena. The No. 1-seeded Djokovic is 8-0 in finals at Melbourne Park and is making an attempt to shut the hole with rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for many Slam trophies received by a person. They every have 20.
    Djokovic seems to have overcome a abdomen muscle drawback that he picked up in his third-round match. The No. 4-seeded Medvedev is in his second main ultimate. He misplaced to Nadal on the 2019 U.S. Open. Medvedev is on a 20-match profitable streak that features 12 wins towards Top 10 opponents, with a type of coming towards Djokovic final season.
    When is Aus Open males’s ultimate between Djokovic vs Medvedev?
    Aus Open males’s ultimate between Djokovic vs Medvedev is on Sunday, 21 February, 2021.
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    Aus Open males’s ultimate between Djokovic vs Medvedev will happen at Rod Laver Arena.
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    Aus Open males’s ultimate between Djokovic vs Medvedev is at 2pm IST.
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    All the Australian Open 2021 matches might be telecast reside in India on the Sony Six SD and HD channels.
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    Aus Open males’s ultimate between Djokovic vs Medvedev might be livestreamed on SonyLiv App and web site. You may observe IndianCategorical.com for reside scores and updates of the match.

  • Australian Open 2021: Barbora Krejcikova, Rajeev Ram win second blended doubles title in 3 years

    Image Source : AP Barbora Krajcikova and Rajeev Ram
    Barbora Krejcikova and Rajeev Ram have made the proper odd-year pairing on the Australian Open, including the 2021 blended doubles title to the one they shared in 2019.

    For Krejcikova, it is three in a row. She and Ram had been in management from the beginning in a 6-1, 6-4 win Saturday over Australian wild playing cards Matt Ebden and Sam Stosur.

    “It’s an amazing feeling,” Krejcikova mentioned. “I’m so grateful that we were able to get back together.”

    Krejcikova gained her first Australian title with Ram two years in the past and with Croatia’s Nikola Mektic final yr.

    “We had a year off as a team, but she didn’t have a year off — she won this thing last year, so that’s three years running for her,” Ram mentioned. “Amazing job. Pleasure to play together with her, all the time.”

    It was a virus — not associated to COVID-19 — that quickly broke up the profitable partnership a month previous to the 2020 Australian Open.

    “I was sick here in December that year and I didn’t think it was a good idea to try to play mixed doubles as well,” mentioned Ram, who gained the boys’s doubles title final yr with Joe Salisbury.

    That places him in competition for a doubles double at Melbourne Park. The 36-year-old American and Salisbury can be making an attempt to defend the title within the doubles closing Sunday in opposition to Croatia’s Ivan Dodig and Slovakia’s Filip Polasek.

    Krejcikova missed her likelihood at a double when she and fellow Czech Katerina Siniakova misplaced the ladies’s doubles closing on Friday to second-seeded Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka.

    She mentioned she put that out of her thoughts as quickly as attainable, aiming for an additional title.

    Krejcikova and Ram confronted solely a single break level and wanted lower than an hour to beat Ebden and Stosur, who had been every earlier winners of the title however with totally different companions.

    When Ebden held serve to lastly get the Australian pair on the scoreboard within the fifth sport, it was nonetheless a great distance again into the opening set. It proved an excessive amount of, with Krejcikova and Ram wrapping it up in simply 22 minutes.

    Fans, who had stayed after Naomi Osaka’s win over Jennifer Brady within the ladies’s singles closing hoping to witness a house Slam triumph, vocally tried to elevate Ebden and Stosur. But it was to no avail.

    The Australian pair lower down their errors within the second set and appeared to be getting again into the match however when Ram held serve simply within the ninth sport, it put the stress instantly again on Ebden’s serve.

    Another couple of errors left Ebden and Stosur observing a match level. And when Ebden pulled a forehand huge after an extended baseline change, it was throughout in simply 59 minutes.

    Krejcikova mentioned the partnership with Ram works due to their method to the sport. “I just feel we understand each other on and off the court,” she said. “He’s just really easygoing and it works out.”

  • Australian Open 2021 Women’s Final Highlights: Osaka downs Brady with 6-4, 6-3 win

    Australian Open 2021 Women’s Final Highlights: Naomi Osaka gained her fourth Grand Slam. (File)Australian Open 2021 Women’s Singles Final Highlights: Naomi Osaka took her Grand Slam tally as much as 4 on Saturday after she beat Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-3 within the ladies’s singles remaining of the 2021 Australian Open on the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.
    Osaka, the primary Japanese participant to win a significant, prolonged her excellent document in a significant remaining with a convincing win over the first-time finalist. After triumphing over the likes of Serena Williams, Garbine Muguruza, Ons Jabeur, and Hsieh Su-wei throughout her keep in Melbourne, she downed the American with ease. Although the primary set proved to be a difficult for the third seed, Osaka wrapped issues up shortly within the second regardless of struggling a tiny bobble within the center.
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  • Australian Open: Novak Djokovic hopes to defend dynasty in opposition to Daniil Medvedev

    A really completely different Australian Open involves a well-known finish on Sunday as Novak Djokovic seems to thwart one other problem to his Melbourne Park dynasty from the newest Grand Slam aspirant in Daniil Medvedev.
    The event has charted a rocky path by way of the COVID-19 pandemic and a snap five-day lockdown because of a neighborhood outbreak robbed it of a lot of its vitality.
    But a comforting sense of normality will pervade Rod Laver Arena when a wholesome crowd recordsdata in for a closing that might mark a shift within the tennis panorama.
    Much just like the event, world primary and defending champion Djokovic has been compelled into disaster administration at instances throughout his marketing campaign.
    Pilloried within the leadup for petitioning organisers to ease strict quarantine protocols for gamers, the Serb struggled with an stomach pressure sustained within the third spherical.
    His skill to handle the damage was key in bringing him inside one match of a record-extending ninth Australian Open crown however he mentioned he was combating match after beating Russian qualifier Aslan Karatsev within the semi-finals.
    Victory over fourth seed Medvedev would imply an 18th Grand Slam title for Djokovic, pulling him inside two of the report 20 shared by “Big Three” rivals Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal.
    While the 33-year-old Djokovic has by no means misplaced a closing at Melbourne Park, his reign has hardly ever regarded so susceptible.
    He suffered an enormous scare in opposition to Dominic Thiem within the five-set decider final 12 months, and Medvedev is presumably the participant he would least prefer to face.
    Daniil Medvedev was the runner-up to Nadal on the 2019 US Open. (File Photo)
    The rangy Russian has been a machine since November, clinching the Paris Masters, the ATP Finals and the team-based ATP Cup in a 20-match profitable streak that has included 12 straight victories over top-10 opponents.
    Djokovic was amongst Medvedev’s victims on the ATP Finals however when the Serb strolls onto his favorite centre courtroom on Sunday, the form-book is unlikely to determine.
    With the exception of Thiem’s U.S. Open win final 12 months the place Djokovic was disqualified for hitting a tennis ball right into a line choose, the “Big Three” have gained all of the Slams since 2017.
    “There has been a lot of talk about the new generations coming and taking over from the three of us but realistically that isn’t happening still,” Djokovic advised Eurosport.
    “I’m not going to stand here and hand it over to them. I am going to make them work their arse off for it.”
    Contesting his second Grand Slam closing however first in Australia, Medvedev is hungry for achievement after being edged by Nadal in a traditional five-set decider on the 2019 U.S. Open.
    Djokovic would possibly see one thing of himself within the assured 25-year-old, who boasts equally elite courtroom protection, defence, and shot-making.
    Medvedev has added psychological power to his arsenal, which proved invaluable in his semi-final in opposition to Stefanos Tsitsipas as he closed out a tense third set after briefly wobbling within the face of a hostile crowd.
    He has additionally proven willingness to bask in a little bit of niggle, saying the stress is all on Djokovic as he chases the 20-slam report.
    Though Medvedev has gained three of their final 4 matches, he has solely met Djokovic as soon as at a Grand Slam, shedding in 4 units within the fourth spherical of the 2019 Australian Open.