French Open 2023: perfect Djokovic leaves Khachanov no chance

Although the Serbian tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was said to be in a weakening form before the tournament in Paris and the media liked to talk about his failure in other tournaments, today he showed what he is still capable of. He was confident before the tournament and said that he would play to win, but people didn't really believe him. And that's exactly how the match against the Russian Khachanov started. Khachanov was strong and dominant at the beginning and it seemed that Djokovic was no match for his opponent today. But after losing the first set, he started to turn up the heat more and more and played tennis like in his very best times. He aimed and hit exactly into the corners of the opponent's court, chased his opponent through the court and then surprised him with fabulous stop balls, which forced Khachanov to unbelievable spurts against the net, which robbed him of more and more power. Such perfect tennis had not been seen from Djokovic for a while. But Khachanov is not just anyone, he is the number 11 in the world. He can hold his own. When Djokovic took a game from the Russian in the fourth set and led 4:3 to go up 5:3, Khachanov surprisingly managed to re-break and it was 4:4 again. Now a door opened again for Khachanov. He could win the set and save himself into the fifth set. But Djokovic put such thoughts away in a flash when he re-breaked the Russian again, knocking out the Russian with pesky stop balls and perfect winners. After a hard-fought 5:4, Djokovic served for the match win and made short work of it. Khachanov, for his part, had run out of steam. Djokovic proved today that he could be a real candidate for the final and the trophy.