The Tel Aviv Watergen tournament entered its late stages, as tonight (Friday), the quarter-final matches were held, where the big star of the tournament, Novak Djokovic, worked hard to beat Vasak Pospisil on his way to the semi-finals against Roman Sapiulin.
Djokovic, ranked first in the tournament and seventh in the world, had a hard time in the first set which was tight throughout, when each of the tennis players kept their service games, which led to a tiebreaker, where the Serbian was more focused and took it with 6:7(5).
Djokovic qualified for the semifinals of the Tel Aviv tournament, photo: Oren Aharoni
In the second set, Nola began to recover and was able to break already in the second game to go up to a quick 0:3, but Vashak was able to break back in the fifth game and equalize to 3:3, but another break in Novak's eighth game closed the story at 3:6 and a ticket to the big 4.
Ivitch Mebsut in the stands, photo: Oren Aharoni
Djokovic will play in the last four, against the Russian Safiolin (104 in the world), who won 4:6, 1:6 over the French Arthur Rinderknecht (58).
Djokovic qualified for the semifinals of the Tel Aviv tournament, photo: Oren Aharoni
One match was canceled today when the second ranked in the tournament and 16th in the world, the Croatian Marin Cilic, the champion of the United States in 2014, automatically advanced to the next stage, after his opponent Liam Brody (174) of Great Britain fell ill and did not appear for the match.
Djokovic qualified for the semi-finals of the Tel Aviv tournament,
In the semi-finals, Cilic will meet the French Constant Lestain (68 in the world), who won a close and tense match against Maxime Kersi (34) with the result (4) 7:6, 3:6, 6:7(3).
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