The Serb called the match against Sin­ner one of the worst in his career: “He out­played me. “I’m just shocked by my game, it was one of the worst Grand Slam match­es I’ve ever played,” Djokovic shared at a press con­fer­ence. Novak not­ed that reach­ing the semi­fi­nals is already a good result, but he always expects more. In the game with Sin­ner, for the first time in his career, the Serb was unable to cre­ate a sin­gle break point in a match at a Grand Slam tour­na­ment.

Djokovic’s weakness or Sinner’s skill?

Two in one: the Serb called his game “one of the worst,” experts also note that Novak did not play deep enough, con­stant­ly made mis­takes in line trans­fers and lost exchanges with diag­o­nal shots. Sin­ner “took advan­tage of the poor form” of his oppo­nent, the Ital­ian had more free­dom to maneu­ver, but the 22-year-old ten­nis play­er won not only due to Novak’s weak play: Sin­ner moved clear­ly, worked strong serves and played a more aggres­sive game.

A year ago, Novak Djokovic won the Aus­tralian Open Grand Slam tour­na­ment for the tenth time. In the final, Djokovic defeat­ed the Greek Ste­fanos Tsit­si­pas with a score of 6:3, 7:6 (7:4), 7:6 (7:5). The match between Novak and Ste­fanos last­ed almost three hours. Djokovic made sev­en aces to Tsit­si­pas’ 15, made three dou­ble faults and con­vert­ed two of five break points. Djokovic equaled Spaniard Rafael Nadal (22) in the num­ber of vic­to­ries in Grand Slam tour­na­ments.