Novak Djokovic celebrated his thirty seventh birthday on Wednesday by beating unseeded Yannick Hanfmann 6-3, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals on the Geneva Open.
It was the 1,one hundredth victory for the World No. 1 at ATP tournaments.
Djokovic rallied from 3-0 down within the ultimate set by profitable six straight video games. He transformed his second match level when Hanfmann’s forehand hit the online.
The 32-year-old German broke Djokovic within the second sport of the set when Djokovic struggled together with his first serve.
The second-round match had earlier been suspended by rain with Djokovic making an attempt to serve out the primary set 5-3, deuce.
The document 24-time Grand Slam champion wasted a set level and had to save 4 break factors earlier than the match was interrupted by rainfall.
He had to save one other break level after play resumed earlier than serving out the set with an ace.
Djokovic acquired a wild card on the clay-court warmup occasion for the French Open.
Seeking his first title of the season, Djokovic will subsequent face the winner of the match between Denis Shapovalov and Tallon Griekspoor, which was suspended due to rain on Wednesday.
The Geneva Open ultimate is scheduled for Saturday, someday earlier than predominant draw play begins at Roland Garros, the place Djokovic is the defending champion.
Fernandez-Routliffe on to Strasbourg quarters
The Laval, Que., native fell to Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova in a Round of 16 single’s match on Tuesday.
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Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova bested Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in a rain-delayed Round of 16 match on the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France.
Diallo, Stakusic close to French Open predominant draw
Canadians Gabriel Diallo and Marina Stakusic are a win away from advancing to their first Grand Slam predominant draw.
Montreal’s Diallo superior to the third spherical of French Open males’s qualifying on Thursday with a 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-4 win over Argentina’s Marco Trungelliti.
Later, Stakusic, from Mississauga, Ont., saved match level and got here again to defeat Croatia’s Antonia Ruzic 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (6) in a ladies’s second-round qualifying match.
Diallo will face Switzerland’s Alexander Ritschard on Thursday for a spot in the principle draw.
The 19-year-old Stakusic got here by means of in a tiebreaker after a vital maintain to tie the third set at 6-6. She will subsequent face Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine.
Earlier, Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino was eradicated from the second spherical of qualifying with a 6-2, 6-3 loss to Croatia’s Lucija Ciric Bagaric.
Marino was in search of to reach the principle draw at Roland-Garros for the third straight 12 months.
The males’s and ladies’s predominant attracts start Sunday.
Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., are within the males’s draw, whereas Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., is within the ladies’s draw.
Mississauga’s Bianca Andreescu can also be anticipated to make a return at Roland-Garros by means of her protected rating. She hasn’t performed since sustaining a again damage on the National Bank Open in Montreal final August.
