translated from Spanish: [VIDEO] Tokyo 2020: Djokovic lost bronze and his furious reaction went viral

Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, world number one, lost on Saturday the bronze medal match of the Tokyo Olympics to Spain’s Pablo Carreño (11th), 4-6, 7-6 (6) and 3-6, and leaving a bad image during the course of the match. It was a titans duel of almost three hours, and with an epic denouement. Carreno took the podium on the sixth ball of the match against a deranged, exhausted and ruminating Djokovic still from the loss of being the first tennis player in history to achieve the ‘Golden Grand Slam’, a milestone with which to adorn the 20 ‘great’ titles of his resume. Instead, the Spaniard was solid and aggressive with his backhand and effective in the endless exchanges of balls. That attitude and the improvement of the service allowed him to overthrow the best racket of the moment, who saw how he did not get it right in any of the options of breaking serve and gave up the first set by 6-4.Carreño, forged in the talent factory of Juan Carlos Ferrero in Villena (Alicante), was enough with a ‘break’ in the sixth game with a ‘balloon’ to sentence the first set against an opponent who still does not they had conceded defeat against Germany’s Alexander Zverev, and with which they pulled away Olympic gold and glory in one fell swoop. The Spaniard again exhibited the solid tennis that the Russian Khachanov did not leave him in the second set to neutralize the reaction of ‘Nole’. With no break option for either opponent in the ‘B final’ of the Olympic tournament, Djokovic pulled out his pride to save a match ball at 5-4 and win the tiebreaker game (8-6). The script seemed written for a comeback from the world number one. It wasn’t, Djokovic cursed his mistakes, threw his racquet and slammed it into one of the net posts to end up giving way to Carreno. The Asturian achieved the break in the second game, consolidated it in the next and with 3-0 headed his ascent to the podium. The Olympic laurel was long overdue. At 5-3 and serving, Carreno had to resort to several direct points and recover the best version of his tennis to ascend to the tokyo 2020 drawer in the sixth match point. He might have thought that a bad afternoon against Khachanov took him away from a gold he had earned with a bang. In return he hung a ‘golden’ bronze by his neck in his best match ever against the worst opponent, the ‘ogre’ Djokovic.

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