After the championship in Australia expanded, Dubai Championships was the second tournament Novak Djokovic attended by 2023. Here, he was ranked No. 1 seed and now has tickets to the semi -finals.
In the last quarterfinals, Djokovic has a talented screen and seed No. 5 Hubert Hurkacz. Enter set 1, the No. 1 seed won the previous break in game 4 to gain advantage. In the rest of the set, Hurkacz could not reclaim the break, thereby losing 3-6.
Sang Set 2, Hurkacz played efforts, making Djokovic face many difficulties. At the game 11 hinges when holding the serve, the Polish player saved 4 break-point but failed for the fifth time. Sang game 12, he lost 0-40 and accepted the racket with defeat 5-7.
In the end, Djokovic won 6-3, 7-5 and officially won tickets to the semi-finals. Notably, the opponent of the world's No. 1 player will be Daniil Medvedev. In the last quarterfinals, the Russian player defeated Borna Coric with a score of 6-3, 6-2.
Commenting on Medvedev before the semi -finals, Djokovic said: “Daniil is one of the best players in the world in the past 5 years. He has won the Grand Slam and has held the No. 1 world. Especially, he plays very well on the hard yard.
In the remaining semi -finals, Alexander Zverev will face Andrey Rubleev. The players will play tonight 3/3.
