Novak Djokovic loses first match of 2021: ‘I just felt terrible on the court’


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For the first time in 2021, Novak Djokovic has missing. Dan Evans defeated the top-ranked tennis player 6-4, 7-5 in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters. Djokovic, who is coming off a title at the Australian Open, used to be understandably self-critical approximately his performance against the unseeded British player.

“I don’t need to take anything absent from his win, but from my side I just felt terrible on the court,” Djokovic said, per the Associated Press. “Nothing worked. It’s a kind of days.

“Will have to have and could have done much, much better. I will’t take anything positive absent from this match.”

Djokovic dropped his serve five times in the match that he began with a 3-0 deficit in the first set. 

Evans, meantime, used to be oddly calm approximately what can only be described as the most efficient win of his career.

“It probably hasn’t sunk in yet, I couldn’t slightly imagine that final ball went over the net. It almost didn’t,” he said. “It’s clearly a big win. That is the biggest object, you have to imagine you’ll win. Serving it out is not easy, you have got these kind of things going through your head.”


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