The statistics for the tennis tournament M15 Kish Island are updated regularly, as games are played and results are processed. All finished and retired matches are counted towards these statistics.

Set Win percentage shows the winning percentage out of total sets played by each player in this tournament. All finished and retired matches are counted towards these statistics.ĭata in above table lists consecutive 1st Set wins by each player. Tsitsipas made three off his forehand alone while Djokovic produced one from his backhand and then double-faulted to hand back two mini-breaks.Ī 12th forehand error for the set (stunning given the shot is his trademark) left Tsitsipas down a mini-break again, and Djokovic served it out for 7-6(4) and a two-set lead.ĭjokovic came into the night 238-1 all-time when taking a two-set lead, only losing in the 2010 quarter-finals of Roland Garros to Jurgen Melzer.Data in above table is calculated from finished matches only.ĭata in above table lists the number of clean sheets (matches with no lost sets) out of total matches played by each player in this tournament. In it, nerves clearly struck with four bad errors shared across the two men before the first changeover.

(Surprisingly, given it is Tsitsipas’ best shot, to that stage Djokovic had seven forehand winners to the Greek’s three.)ĭjokovic was getting angrier and angrier, raging at his own box for unknown reasons (other than the match being close) and nearly hitting a ball into a ball kid before a nervous hold forced a tiebreak. The first break point of the set, and the first of the match for Tsitsipas, was a set point at 5-4 after a Djokovic backhand error - a forehand winner saved it, and the game was eventually held. Tsitsipas saved two break points in his opening service game as Djokovic immediately applied pressure on return, but was broken at 1-2 and handed the ascendancy to his more experienced opponent, who has established himself as one of the best frontrunners in the sport’s history.ĭjokovic sealed the opening set in just over 30 minutes, but faced far more resistance from Tsitsipas in a spellbinding second set. That set saw Djokovic down set point when serving at 4-5, 30-40, but the 35-year-old saved it with a winner after an engrossing rally.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen ,” added Mats Wilander.Īn electric atmosphere greeted both players as they walked out onto Rod Laver Arena, with a raucous crowd generating an atmosphere more suited to a Davis Cup tie. “It shows how much it’s taken out of him physically and emotionally.” he’s crying in his family box, I’ve never seen anything like that,” Tim Henman said in Eurosport’s coverage of the final. “When he’s celebrating and the tears are flowing.

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