![]() ![]() He had struck 16 aces and suffered only a single break. Two double-faults and a horrid unforced error and he was suddenly receiving serve again.Ī second match point came and went with another double-fault before Medvedev finally concluded this extraordinary tournament with one more unreturnable serve. He held a first match point at 5-2, 40-30 in the third set. ![]() While all this emotional drama was unfolding, Medvedev experienced a loss of nerve on his first attempt to serve the match out. He wept into his towel, even as the same New York fans who have so often scorned him tried to exhort him to raise his game. The answer may lie somewhere in the middle, but Djokovic became tearful at the final change of ends before his 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 defeat reached its finish. Was Djokovic feeling the after-effects of playing five more sets than Daniil Medvedev on the way to this final? Was he hag-ridden by his own desperate desire to equal Rod Laver’s 1969 record of monopolising all four majors in a season? And yet, Djokovic’s demeanour and tennis were so uncharacteristic that it felt more like an aberration than that long-awaited “changing of the guard”. ![]() Novak Djokovic’s dream of the calendar grand slam came to grief as he finally lost to a member of the so-called NextGen. ![]()
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