09/06/2020 - 14:45
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Novak Djokovic's path at the 2020 US Open had
an unexpected and controversial end
.
The Serbian, number one in the world,
was disqualified
for hitting a ball at a linesman at the back of the court, at the end of the first set of his round of 16 duel against
Pablo Carreño Busta
.
Nole
lost his serve in the 11th game to go 5-6 down and unleashed the anger by returning the ball with great force to the ball shooter.
It was with such bad luck that he hit a lineswoman on the neck, that she fell to the ground with many problems breathing.
The Serb immediately apologized, but the tournament authorities applied the rules and
disqualified him
.
Djokovic was looking for his 18th Grand Slam title in New York and his fourth at this event.
He had an unbeaten 26-win win
this season.
Last year he had lost in this tournament precisely in the round of 16 against Stan Wawrinka.
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German Alexander Zverev qualified for the quarterfinals by beating Spanish
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
6-2, 6-2 and 6-1
, 99th in the ranking and one of the surprises of the contest.
Naomi Osaka
, former number one in the ranking and winner of the US Open in 2018, will go for her fifth victory against Kontaveit (21st in the WTA rankings) in the same number of matches.
The last duel between the two was in the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati tournament, which was also played at Flushing Meadows last week.
And the Asian won 4-6, 6-2 and 7-5.
The Asian is living very special days in New York.
Very involved in the fight against racism and in the difficult moments that American society is experiencing due to acts of police violence against black people, she is taking advantage of her fame and the platform provided by the US Open to try to raise awareness about the importance of that problem.
He has, for example, seven masks with names of victims of those acts of violence that he uses every time he goes out on the field.
Osaka wears a different mask in each game, to draw attention to racial violence in the United States.
Photo Al Bello / Getty Images / AFP
For the men's team, Belgian David Goffin (7th) and Canadian
Denis Shapovalov
(12th)
will also collide
, in a duel from which Djokovic's rival would come out in the quarterfinals;
and the Croatian
Borna Coric
(27th) and the Australian
Jordan Thompson.
In one of the first matches of the day, American
Jennifer Brady
(28th) surprised German Angelique Kerber (17th) by beating her 6-1, 6-4.
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