According to the original schedule, Novak Djokovic will play his opening match in round 1 of the 2024 US Open with Radu Albot at 7:30 a.m. on August 27 (Vietnam time). However, because the previous matches had not ended, the two players had to wait nearly 2 hours before they could start.
Djokovic - the number 2 seed, meets the Romanian player ranked 138th in the world, everyone can predict the result. The problem is to see how the Serbian legend shows his superiority.
But Nole shows it in a quite interesting way, both showing his class and showing that he is not completely "warm up".
It took Djokovic 2 hours and 8 minutes to end the 3 sets with scores of 6-2, 6-2, 6-4, including 6 successful breaks in 10 break opportunities. He also had 8 direct serves, 23 winners and 5 consecutive winning games.
But the 37-year-old tennis player's first serve ratio is only 47%, quite far behind Albot (72%). However, the difference is that his first serve scoring rate is still up to 74% (Albot's is only 58%).
Because the first serve was not very good, Djokovic made 10 double faults - a rare thing, 3 times more than the 34-year-old Romanian player. And also, he also had 40 self-inflicted errors (Albot 45 times).
Albot's most notable highlight in the match was the break he won in game 4 of set 2
Djokovic had his 78th win on Arthur Ashe Court - the most in the history of male tennis players, and advanced to the second round and met compatriot Laslo Djere, who had to play 3 hours 43 minutes and 5 sets to win against Jan-Lennard Struff, the German tennis player ranked 74 places higher.
Moving on to the second round are Casper Ruud, Gael Monfils - 2 players will meet, Alexander Zverev, Andrey Rublev, Grigor Dimitrov, Ben Shelton.
In the women's singles, top players such as Aryna Sabalenka, Maddison Keys, Zheng Qinwen, Coco Gauff, Barbora Krejcikova all have tickets to continue. Only Maria Sakkari had to abandon her match due to injury.
