After Australia expanded, Dubai Championships was the second tournament of Novak Djokovic attending in 2023. Here, he was ranked No. 1 seed and had just had a difficult match against Tomas Machac. However, in the second round, the Serbian player has found his inherent performance.
This round, Djokovic's opponent Tallon Griekspoor – ranked 39th in the world. The world's No. 1 player only takes 1 hour 21 minutes to win, thereby going to the quarterfinals.
Entering set 1, Djokovic entered the game very quickly when winning the previous break in game 2 to lead 3-0 and 4-1. In the rest of the set, Griekspoor could not reclaim the break. Coming to Game 8 when Nole is leading 5-2, the world's No. 1 player has 5 chances to win the break and have taken advantage of to end that set with a 6-2 victory.
Set 2 witnessed Griekspoor's excellent efforts. Like Set 1, the Dutch player was broken right away the first serve game. Coming to Game 4, he and Djokovic have the longest game.
Accordingly, Griekspoor successfully saved 5 break-point and accepted defeat in the 6th time. At Game 7, the Dutch tennis player removed 1 break, but that was not enough to turn the flag. He accepted the racket in Game 9 with defeat 3-6.
In the end, Djokovic defeated Grieksoror with a score of 6-2, 6-3 and officially won tickets to the quarterfinals of Dubai Championships. Here, he will encounter the No. 5 seed Hubert Hurkacz.
In addition to Djokovic, Hurkacz, two other seeds, Medvedev and Zverev were also present in the quarterfinals. Specifically, Medvedev will meet Borna Coric, and Zverev will compete for the semi -finals with Lorenzo Sonego.
