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Djokovic leads 2-0 in Australian Open final vs Tsitsipas
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic is one set away from his tenth Australian Open singles championship and his twenty second Grand Slam title.
Djokovic gained the primary set 6-3 and the second 7-6 (4) towards Stefanos Tsitsipas within the Australian Open males’s singles ultimate on Sunday.
Along with the championship, the winner will declare the No. 1 spot within the ATP rankings.
For the fourth-seeded Djokovic, it’s additionally an opportunity to win his tenth Australian Open title a yr after he wasn’t allowed to compete at Melbourne Park as a result of he was not vaccinated for COVID-19. A twenty second Grand Slam singles title would additionally tie the 35-year-old Serbian participant with Rafael Nadal for the boys’s report.
The third-seeded Tsitsipas is attempting to grow to be the primary Greek participant to win a Grand Slam singles title. In his solely different main ultimate, Tsitsipas gained the primary two units towards Djokovic however misplaced the match in 5.
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