Last night, Beijing time, the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters was held as scheduled. In one of the most watched matches, the world's first and two-time champion Djokovic appeared.
His opponent is last year's French Open dark horse, Spanish boy Fudkina. Previously, the two had met twice, and the winner was Djokovic.
At the beginning of the first set, Djokovic's hand was tight, and he was broken in his second serve.
The two sides have met before, and Falkina has never been ahead. This time the opening is the lead, and the Spanish youngster is eager to win! His bats are well played, and he always scores in multi-round tackles.
In the fifth set, Djokovic recovered and took advantage of the situation to break the opponent's serve and chase the score to 2-4. However, at the end of the set, he was again broken, losing a set 3-6.
At the beginning of the second set, Djokovic was broken again, but his form recovered. In the third set, he forced his opponents to appear six break points, but without exception they were squandered by himself. It took fourteen minutes and still couldn't break the opponent's serve.
It was hard to drag the game to the seventh and win, but the discerning person could see that Djokovic was not at his best. He has been in the battle for a long time, whether it is feelings or physical strength, he is far away from him who won the French Open in the past year.
Sure enough, in the decider, Djokovic dropped all the way, and finally lost 1-6 to the opponent, a hasty end.
It is said that the Monte Carlo Masters are the vane of the French Open, and the winner of the Montague wins the French Open! But in Djokovic's case, it doesn't seem to work.
Take his past two titles, in 2016 he lost to Viselli in the first round of Monca, but later Roland Garros, he defeated Murray, making up for the loss of the final last year.
Last year's French Open was able to bring down Nadal and reverse Tsitsipas in five sets to win the title, but at the Monte Carlo Masters, he won just one game, losing to Evans in the third round and suffering his first defeat of the season.
With Nadal likely not being able to play at his best, Djokovic has certainly seen the defense of the French Open as an important goal this year.
At present, there are still forty days left before the start of the French Open, and there is still time for him to adjust. I believe that madrid and Rome masters, he should both participate, it depends on whether he can use these events to continue to improve his status before the French Open! (Source: Tennis House Author: Luo ChengQiye)