American Sam Querrey defeated dreams of Novak Djokovic on the Big calendar slam.
Over the year, Novak Djokovic has not lost in the majors – Serb prior to the meeting with Sam Querrey has had a phenomenal streak of 28 at least the quarter-finals in the tournament series Grand slam. In the last times before the second week of a major tournament the first racket of the world did not get to Roland Garros in 2009.
On the first day of the match, Querrey sensationally took two sets. Djokovic without special problems has taken a third party, but began to experience enormous problems in the fourth set. The Serb regularly get to break points but his serve gave Querrey a lot of chances on the break. In the end, Djokovic did break, but was unable to apply for a set. In the tiebreak, the Serb was leading 3:1, Querrey unexpectedly received from his rival a few rough unforced errors and a match-bol, Djokovic sent the ball out of bounds.
Andy Murray on the court learned of the defeat of Djokovic – the news hasn’t gone to the Brit’s head. Second seeded in two hours and 16 minutes passed John Millman, which only lasted for two sets. Murray waits for the completion of the match between Nick Kyrgios and Feliciano Lopez – tennis players before dark managed to play two sets (1:1).
Among the other results of another fleeting day we will note a confident victory of kei nishikori and Milos Raonic, who after the departure of Djokovic became the main favorite for the semifinals in the upper quarter of the standings.
The results of matches of seeded players:
Alexander Zverev (Germany, 24) – Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) — 6:4, 3:6, 6:0, 4:6, 6:2
John Millman (Australia) – Andy Murray (Britain, 2) — 3:6, 5:7, 2:6
Jack SOK (the USA, 27) – Milos Raonic (Canada, 6) — 6:7, 4:6, 6:7
Novak Djokovic (Serbia, 1) – Sam Querry (USA, 28) – 6:7, 1:6, 6:3, 6:7
Andrey Kuznetsov (Russia) – Kei Nishikori (Japan, 5) — 5:7, 3:6, 5:7
David Goffin (Belgium, 11) – Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) — 6:4, 6:3, 2:6, 6:1
Marin Cilic (Croatia, 9) – Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) — 6:3, 6:3, 6:4
Roberto Bautista-Agut (Spain, 14) – Bernard Tomich (Australia, 19) — 2:6, 4:6, 4:6
