In the early morning of May 13, Beijing time, the second round of the ATP1000 Rome Masters was contested, and the defending champion Djokovic played against world No. 61 Argentina's Echevelli. After a fierce battle in two sets, Deyo eliminated his opponent 2-0 and successfully reached the round of 32 in the men's singles.
In the first set, Djokovic started badly and was broken by his opponent as soon as he came up. In the 6th game, Deyo broke his opponent's serve to tie the game 3-3. After that, both sides held their own serves, and the game was dragged into a tie-break. Deyo scored four consecutive points from 3-5 down in the seventh game to win the first set 7-5.
In the second set, Deyo started with a back-to-back tie to take a 2-0 lead. In the seventh game, Djokovic broke his opponent's serve again to take a 5-2 lead to win the serve. In the 8th game, Deyo Love Game saved serve and won the second set 6-2.
In a match that lasted 1 hour and 51 minutes, Djokovic defeated Etcheviri 7-6 (5)/6-2 to reach the last 32 of the men's singles. In the next round, Djokovic will face 26th seed Dimitrov, who eliminated Wawrinka in two sets.
With this victory, Deyo has an 80% win rate (260-65) on the clay tour, becoming the only player in the Open era to achieve an 80% win rate on hard courts (670-122), grass (109-18) and clay (260-65).