For four or days after being excluded from the US Open, Novak Djokovic made a serious introspection.
Then he got back on the tennis court, and since then it’s been pretty smooth, at least in terms of results.
Losing a set last week, Djokovic won his fifth Internazionali BNL d’Italia name on Monday after beating Diego Schwartzman 7-5, 6-3, and restored his trust at Roland Garros, which begins in six days.
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“I experienced intellectual ups and downs in the first 4 to five days that followed. I’m in shock,” Djokovic said of the defect, which happened 15 days earlier for inadvertently hitting a line to judge in the throat with a bullet in one mouth. compatibility of anger.
“But I’ve evolved and, Array, I’ve never had a challenge in my life to get through anything. Whatever the difficulty, I go out to take the next day and hope for the most productive and move on,” Djokovic said. “Having a tournament a week after that helped Array a lot . . . just because I looked into the box and got the lines, if any, and I think I had a really smart week. “
The only genuine challenge for Djokovic last week was his habit again.
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He won warnings from the chair judge for breaking a racket in the quarter-finals and profary in the semi-finals.
However, Djokovic has advanced to 31-1 this year, with his only loss to Pablo Carreno Busta in the attack where he fell.
He also surpassed the idol of the years of formation Pete Sampras for the second biggest week at No. 1 with 287, and he’s behind Roger Federer’s 310 weeks in first place.
With his 36th ATP Masters 1000 title, Djokovic surpassed Rafael Nadal as the most sensible on the list of all time.
In the women’s final, first seed Simona Halep won her first name in Rome when last year’s champion, Karolina Pliskova, retired midway through the match with a matrix on her left thigh.
Halep was leading 6-0, 2-1 when Pliskova stopped playing after just 31 minutes.
Previously, Pliskova underwent back treatment through a trainer after Halep won the first set. Pliskova also had her left thigh register the match.
Halep, who lost the 2017 and 2018 Rome finals to Elina Svitolina, brought her best tennis recovery record to 10-0.
“In 2013, I started [reaching] the top of world tennis,” said Halep, now a two-time Grand Slam champion, recalling her wonderful race to the semi-finals that year. “Since then, I started playing really well, well and finally, after two finals, I was able to win this title. “