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So there’s plenty of carrot for the gifted 29-year-old and you can never, ever rule him out. Djokovic can’t actually do that yet, because he still has to play Berdych, who has a win on the board and could yet rein him in. If Wawrinka repeats the trick, he will qualify for the last four tonight. He’s done exactly that 15 times to the Swiss’s three, so we know what the form book says, but Wawrinka did beat him in the Australian Open quarters this year in a stunning five-setter. Djokovic, who you don’t need me to tell you is the world number one, is on an astonishing run of indoor form at the moment with 28 consecutive wins – the third-best such streak in history – and will be favoured to overcome fourth-ranked Wawrinka.
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Might it do exactly that tonight? This certainly looks a more exciting match-up, with Novak Djokovic and Stanislas Wawrinka having beaten Cilic and Berdych, respectively, by 6-1 6-1 scorelines in their first Group B games. Not that the afternoon was especially terrible in itself, but the Berdych-Cilic match was really rather dull and it feels about time, in general, that this tournament caught fire. Let’s hope it’s a bit better than the afternoon. Then he earns a THIRD break point and this time he takes it, as Djokovic hits diagonally and long! He saves the resulting break point, and wins the next, but Wawrinka pulls out another superb forehand pass and it’s deuce again. We see our first appeal of the game on the next point, and Djokovic gets it wrong, appealing a ball that had gone in. Wawrinka misses a presentable opportunity for the break points, going wide with a backhand down the line, but earns one at the second time of asking when Djokovic goes long after an attritional rally! It’s wasted, and we have deuce. It’s 15-30 soon after and this game has begun interestingly. But the Swiss hits form straightaway on the second, anticipating a Djokovic volley and finding a way past him tremendously. It should do his confidence some good – it was far closer to the level of the first two.įirst set: Djokovic* 0-1 Wawrinka (the * will denote the player serving in the game described, from hereon) Well, already more fun than Berdych v Cilic as Wawrinka breaks! Djokovic wins the first point, sending Wawrinka the wrong way with a forehand winner after the return.
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Then he wins the game as Djokovic goes wide, and that is much more like it from him. Wawrinka then reaches Advantage with a great, controlled backhand to Djokovic’s right.
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Wawrinka’s third double fault gives Djokovic his first set point after that.and he can’t convert it. In his best bit of play for a while, Wawrinka then charges into the net and puts a volley away, but then Djokovic manufactures the next point with a stunning, angled forehand and we have parity – in this game – again. Better from him, but better yet from Djokovic who lasers in a second-serve return for deuce. An unreturned serve yields a “Come on!” and 40-30. Djokovic returns the ensuing serve stunningly, spectacularly, but Wawrinka manages to force an error shortly afterwards. Another forehand that doesn’t clear the net makes 15-30. He can barely make a thing at the moment, but is then aided by a Djokovic miss. First set: Djokovic 5-3 Wawrinka* Wawrinka puts a forehand into the net on the first point.