Olympia 2021: Djokovic beats Struff, Medvedev continues
With Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev , the two top seeded players of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo have made it through to the round of 16.
by SID / red
last edit: Jul 26, 2021, 11:20 am
Jan-Lennard Struff could not stop tennis dominator Novak Djokovic in his attack on the Golden Slam. The 31-year-old from Warstein had to admit defeat to the world number one from Serbia, who has won all three previous Grand Slam tournaments this season, in the second round of the Olympic Games 4: 6, 3: 6 on Monday. Before that, top player Alexander Zverev was the first German to reach the round of 16.
Struff suffered his sixth defeat in the sixth duel with the Serbian exceptional talent. This season Djokovic has the chance to become the second professional tennis player after Steffi Graf in 1988 to create the so-called Golden Slam - victories at all four Grand Slam tournaments as well as Olympic gold in one calendar year.
Zverev now against Basilashvili
As expected, Daniil Medvedev had no problems with the Indian Sumit Nagal. The Russian gave up only three games, winning 6: 2 and 6: 1. Earlier on Monday, Alexander Zverev had also easily reached the round of 16 against Daniel Elahi Galan 6: 2 and 6: 2. There Zverev plays against Nikoloz Basilashvili. Medvedev has to play against Fabio Fognini.
"It was a relatively positive match for me," said Zverev, who was in fourth place and who has given a medal as a goal and is also in the double with Struff in the last 16: "You have to play aggressively here, you have to do a lot with the serve . That worked out relatively well today. "