Novak Djokovic as all-time favorite for leadership tennisnet.com

Novak Djokovic is about to claim his 36th ATP Masters 1000 title. Serb could beat him in the final Diego schwartzman to take the lead in the eternal rankings.

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With his win over Casper Ruud in the semi-finals, where he fought hard in the first set, Novak Djokovic not only reached his 10th final in Rome, but also his 52nd in the ATP Masters 1000 series. Djokovic was the winner 35 times since the court, even against Diego Schwartzman is what the Anglophile describes as a “prohibitive favorite.” As a big favorite, freely translated.

The feed is initially off the clean record against final opponent Diego Schwartzman: Djokovic has won all four of his previous games against the Argentine, including those in Rome just over a year ago. Furthermore, Schwartzman will certainly not enter his first Masters 1000 final again after his epic battle against Denis Shapovalov: Schwartzman and Shaopovalov fought each other for three and a half hours, and the Canadian could easily have walked off the court as the winner. Especially since Shapovalov had served in the match 5-4 in the third set.

Djokovic against Koepfer in three sets

Novak Djokovic, for his part, only had problems with Casper Ruud in the first set, defending himself from two set balls from the Norwegian. The road to the final was surprisingly easy in terms of the strength of the opponents for a tournament of this category, for which Djokovic, of course, is not to blame. The industry leader simply played what the draw and the course of the tournament put his way, and that was with Salvatore Caruso (ATP number 87), Filip Krajinovic (29), Dominik Koepfer (97) and Ruud (34). sometimes not very large capacitors.

And in the final Rafael Nadal should have waited for the reissue of the 2019 final. The Spaniard fell victim to Diego Schwartzman in the quarterfinals, in the tenth match for the first time. Nadal and Djokovic currently share the lead in the everlasting best 1000 list, Djokovic could also take the lead on this record with his sixth success in Rome. Additionally, Novak Djokovic has won each of the nine events in this series at least twice; no other player has ever done it once.

Schwartzman on the trail of the Potro?

For Diego Schwartzman, however, it is his greatest professional success. The porteño has won three titles in his career so far (Djokovic has 80), one in the 500 category (Rio de Janeiro 2018), plus two 250 (Istanbul 2016 and Los Cabos 2019). In the world rankings, Schwartzman’s entry into the final in Rome, who was eliminated last week against Laslo Djere in Kitzbühel, will definitely have a positive effect. He has already won two places and is confident again in 13th place, with a win against Novak Djokovic Diego Schwartzman even made it into the top ten for the first time.

Juan Martín del Potro was a regular there for years. DelPo is also the last Argentine to win an ATP Masters 1000: 2018 tournament in Indian Wells in the final against Roger Federer.

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