Tuesday, February 22, 2022 – 2:00 am
DUBAI, 21st February / WAM / World number one Novak Djokovic achieved his inaugural victory at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, defeating Italian Lorenzo Musseti, ranked 57 in the world and a wild card participant, in two sets without a response, in the first round of the 30th edition of the tournament. launched today in Dubai.
It took Djokovic, who is seeking his sixth title in Dubai, to an hour and 14 minutes to settle his first official match in a long time, which also came 6-3 and 6-3 results.
After the meeting, Djokovic expressed his great happiness with this victory, which brought him back strongly to the tennis competitions.
In the same role, Tunisian Malek Jaziri bid farewell to the first round of the championship, after losing to the 44th-ranked Serbian Filip Krajinovic, in a marathon match that lasted for 140 minutes, which Krajinovic eventually decided in his favour, with two sets to one. Their results came 7-6, 2-6, 6-4 .
Al-Jaziri, the only Arab participant in the tournament via an invitation card, presented a high level of competition by not losing the first set with difficulty by breaking the tie rule, and he succeeded in resolving the second set in his favour, but he lost the third set after many long and difficult blows from his opponent.
Within the same role, the Tishki Yeri Veseli, the runner-up from the qualifiers for the tournament, defeated Croatian Marin Schelish, ranked 24th in the world, by two sets without a response 6-4, 7-6/ and a duration of one hour and 55 minutes.
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