Novak Djokovic (No. 1, Serbia) won the Australian Open tennis tournament (86.5 million Australian dollars in total prize money, about 76.1 billion won) in the men’s singles semifinals.
Djokovic defeated Taylor Fritz of the U.S. 3-1 (7-6<7-3> 4-6 6-2 6-3) in the men’s singles quarterfinals on the 10th day of the tournament in Melbourne, Australia, on the 23rd.
Djokovic, who is seeking his second consecutive victory in the tournament, will compete with the winner of the Jannik Sinner (4th, Italy) and Andrej Rublev (5th, Russia) match to advance to the finals.
Djokovic has won 33 consecutive Australian Open titles since 2019.
He won three consecutive games from 2019 to 2021, and missed the 2022 tournament.
Djokovic, who wins the championship, will set a new record of winning the most titles (25 times) in a major competition, and increased his record of advancing to the semifinals (48 times) in a major competition.
Roger Federer (retired, Switzerland) has recorded the second highest number of men’s singles semifinals at major competitions. In addition, Chris Ebert (retired, U.S.) has the record of 52 times in women’s singles.
The match between the two, which was so tight that it took 1 hour and 24 minutes just to play the tiebreaker, was more neck-and-neck as Fritz won the 2nd set.
However, Djokovic took the third set relatively easily, 6-2, and in the fourth set, Djokovic broke Fritz’s serve game with a game score of 4-3, confirming his advance to the semifinals in 3 hours and 45 minutes.
Djokovic was inferior to Fritz at 215 kilometers by shooting a maximum serve speed of 204 kilometers per hour on the day, but the number of serve aces was 20-16 thanks to his exquisite course attack.
As a result of this day, Djokovic continued to have a nine-game advantage against Fritz.
In the women’s singles quarterfinals earlier, Coco Goff of the U.S. beat Marta Kostuk of Ukraine 2-1 (7-6<8-6> 6-7<3-7> 6-2) to reach the semifinals.
Goff, who won a major tournament for the first time in his career at the U.S. Open last year, left open the possibility of winning two consecutive major tournaments.
Goff will face the winner of the Aryna Sabalenka (2nd, Belarus) and Barbora Krejikova (11th, Czech Republic) in the semifinals.
Goff was dragged to a game score of 1-5 in the first set, but won five games down to lead the game to a tiebreaker, and in the tiebreaker, he also won three points down from 5-6 to turn the game around. 월카지노도메인
In the second set, they lost the tiebreaker on the contrary, but in the third set, they easily ran away with a game score of 5-0, surviving a neck-and-neck race that took 3 hours and 9 minutes.
Born in March 2004, 19-year-old Goff defeated Sabalenka in last year’s U.S. Open final to win the major championship. His best performance in the Australian Open was in the round of 16 twice, but he advanced to the round of 4 this year.
Goff, who performed well on the adult stage from a young age, reaching the round of 16 at Wimbledon in 2019 at the age of 15, is a highly anticipated player to succeed retired Serena Williams of the United States.
Meanwhile, Jang Autumn (27th, junior ranking, CJ CheilJedang), who participated in the junior women’s singles, lost 0-2 (6-7<5-7> 1-6) to Aspenschman (70th, USA) in the second round of the singles.
As a result, only Kim Jang-joon (21st, Orion) as a Korean player will remain in the men’s singles round of 16.