translated from Spanish: Djokovic beat Massú ‘s pupil and advances to the final of the 1000 Masters of Madrid

The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, number one in the world ranking, agreed this Saturday to the final of the 1,000 Masters of Madrid, fourth Tournament of this category in the season, thanks to his victory for 7-6 (2) and 7-6 (4) on the Austrian Dominic Thiem, Pupil of the Chilean Nicolás Massú. In this way, Djokovic eliminated the one who is still runner-up of this tournament and returned three years later to the decisive match for the title. And he did it on the basis of a hard and long game, which lasted for 2 hours and 23 minutes on the beaten ground of the main stadium of the Magic box. The Balkans surpassed Thiem despite almost always being seen with setback. Both in the first set and in the second round was the Austrian who broke first the opponent, showing that his two finals followed by Madrid’s lands (2017 and 2018) had not been mirages. Showing firmness with his cut setback at the time of defending, the led by the double Olympic champion in Athens 2004 was put 1-2 up in the inaugural set. But his opponent reacted, with a ‘ break ‘ in the sixth game (3-3) and also saving two balls of rupture in the ninth (5-4). The great management of the boundary situation characterizes ‘ Nole ‘, which thus forced the sudden death and once in it exhibited superiority (7-2). With that partial in his pocket, the Serbian pressed in the following set the first turn of the service of Thiem, but this one kept the danger in line. As if it were not enough, the Central European broke in a long sixth game (2-4), although Djokovic immediately retorted (3-4) and even made another ‘ break ‘ (6-5) that looked like the sentence. The last tail of Thiem served to break the sack of the player of Belgrade (6-6) and abocar the matter towards another sudden death, which nonetheless had a similar screenplay that the previous one (7-4) and smiled at the number of the world.

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