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The Serbian tennis player won all the games played this year by victories. He was disqualified from the US Open.
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic suffered his first defeat of the year on Sunday, after a perfect 26-0, when he hit a ball on a linesman and was disqualified from the United States Open, in the round of 16 tie.
After suffering the break in the eleventh game of the first set, losing 6-5 to Spanish Pablo Carreño-Busta, the world number 1 threw a ball to the baseline, from behind, and hit a judge. line, which fell.
The big favorite to win the race promptly apologized, as he approached the linesman, who was momentarily in trouble, for taking the ball down his throat, but there was nothing to do.
Immediately, the match referees gathered on the pitch, including the tournament referee Soeren Friemel, and minutes later the president, Aurelie Tourte, reported the disqualification of the Serbian player.
Djokovic fell like this for the second consecutive year in the fourth round of the US Open, a year after he was dismissed in the same phase by the Swiss Stan Wawrinka, when he surrendered, injured in the left shoulder, when he lost 6-4, 7- 5 and 2-1.
On this occasion, the Serbian, who had won all the matches played in 2020, was the great favorite for a fourth victory in the competition, after 2011, 2015 and 2018, even due to the many absences, namely the Swiss Roger Federer and the Spanish Rafael Nadal. .
Facing Carreño-Busta, the world ranking leader had been very close to snatching the first set in the tenth game, but, with 5-4 and 0-40 in the Spanish service, allowed the Spanish to save three “points of set”. consecutive and do the 5-5.
In the 11th game, the 27th World Cup reached 0-40 in the Serbian’s service, also winning three set points, to materialize the second and make it 6-5. Djokovic immediately hit a ball where he couldn’t and was disqualified.
The 33-year-old was unexpectedly out of the running for his fourth US Open title and an 18th “Grand Slam,” bringing him closer to 19 for Spaniard Rafael Nadal and 20 for the record holder. the Swiss Roger Federer.
For his part, Pablo Carreño-Busta, who in 2017 was a semifinalist in the North American competition, goes to the quarterfinals, where he will face the winner of the clash between Belgian David Goffin and Canadian Denis Shapovalov.
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