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ATP Vienna sensation: 25-year-old Italian Lorenzo Sonego (ATP 42) beats world number one Novak Djokovic with 6: 2, 6: 1.
Djokovic’s loss to Sonego is one of the biggest tennis sensations of recent times. The 33-year-old Serbian only lost one regular match (and played to the end) this year: the French Open final against Rafael Nadal 0: 6, 2: 6, 5: 7.
And, first of all, Djokovic lost even more clearly than against Lorenzo Sonego: at the 2005 Australian Open he also won just three games in the first round against eventual tournament winner Marat Safin, but in three sets. Djokovic was 17 at the time.
Lorenzo Sonego was basically already eliminated in Vienna. Last Sunday the Italian lost to the Slovenian Aljaz Bedene in the last qualifying round. Only after the shoulder injury and the cancellation of Diego Schwartzman did Sonego slip into the main field, where he has not yet given up a set in three laps.
The last time a “lucky loser” (“lucky loser” / a player who was eliminated in the rankings, but then slipped thanks to rejections) eliminated the world number 1 was three years ago at the Queen’s Club in London. : At that time, the Australian Jordan Thompson defeated the British Andy Murray: 6, 6: 2.
Of the top six 10 players and eight seeded players, only Andrej Rublew reached the semi-finals of the splendid tournament at the Wiener Stadthalle: the Russian, winner of four tournaments this season, eliminated local hero and title holder Dominic Thiem 7: 6 (7: 5), 6: 2.
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