US Open: no Grand Slam for Djokovic who cracked in the final in front of Medvedev

In the city that never sleeps, Daniil Medvedev is not about to close his eyes.

Imperial, impenetrable, intractable, the Russian offered his first major tournament in New York by shattering Novak Djokovic's dream of a calendar Grand Slam in three small sets (6-4, 6-4, 6-4).

The world No. 1 was largely overtaken in the game and especially by the stakes of his 1176th match on the circuit, which could have made him definitively the greatest player in the history of tennis.

Under the eyes of an audience of personalities who came to smell the scent of the feat, including actor Rami Malek, Djoko showed that "Mr. Robot" can also be simply human ...

MEDVEDEV'S MOMENT 🙌 @ DaniilMedwed is the #USOpen champion 🏆 pic.twitter.com/CD2Fqg53Iz

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“I remember 2015 very well, I won that year, and I spoke with Serena, explained the Serbian before his failed meeting with the legend.

I understand what Serena went through in 2015. Obviously, when you find yourself in this situation, you understand what others have gone through before you.

You have to go on the court and respond present.

We always expect us to win.

And we have our own, very high expectations.

It was the case for Serena, it is the case for me.

"

On his first service game, the man with the 20 Grand Slams led 40-15.

The only time in the match when he was in the lead.

Broken entry, nervous, the protégé of Marian Vajda quickly suffered the law of his dolphin in the world rankings, untouchable on his service games.

Legs as heavy as his head - he had all the same spent 5h30 more than his rival on the courts of Flushing Meadows - the Serbian opted for a very offensive tactic, by storming the net on each of his bets. game. The reverse of the last final of the Australian Open where he had easily extinguished the Muscovite by breaking the pace.

Novak Djokovic in the hard!

The Serbian is nervous and his racket is the cost 🔨

Djokovic is led a set and a break by Daniil Medvedev, a final to be followed on Eurosport 1 and https://t.co/uVTiilaGOm #HomeOfTennis #USOpen pic.twitter.com / Ly1pq38RTF

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At the start of the second set, the boss had three break points. Then two more at 2-1 in his favor. Not enough to shake Medvedev, much stronger on long exchanges. After refraining from sending a ball to a ball collector (sad memory of his disqualification in 8th last year), the Belgradois chased his frustration by smashing his racquet. In the next game, a failed volley gave Medvedev another decisive break.

While we were thinking of a saving pee break before the 3rd set (as at Roland Garros, where he had overthrown Tsitsipas after being led two rounds to nothing), Djokovic did not even leave the Arthur-Ashe court.

As if resigned to the sad fate that awaited him.

Indeed, his last set of the year in Grand Slam, under the almost desperate eye of his wife, was only a long ordeal.

Until his rival began to tremble when he concluded with three double faults (including one on match point) at 5-2.

Nerves on both sides, with a Djoker bursting into tears at the change of sides in front of the ovation of the American public.

Winner of the Masters in 2020 and the first player in sixteen years to have put an end to the supremacy of the Big Four on the first two places of the ATP ranking, Medvedev continues his march forward. And show Djokovic that he won't easily let him make history. Rod Laver, present in the stands, will no doubt wait a long time for a successor to his 1969 Grand Slam ...