After Nadal's disempowerment: Djokovic wants his 19th Grand Slam title

“I’m definitely not the freshest now,” said Djokovic late on Friday evening after his win against the 13-time Paris champion. The two tennis superstars played a top-class game for 4:10 hours. The makers of year-end highlight videos can actually finish their work now - things can't get any better this year.

“It was one of those games, one of those nights that you will never forget,” said Djokovic after the encounter, where the enthusiastic tennis fans were allowed to stay until the end despite the corona-related curfew at 23.00 p.m. “The atmosphere was absolutely electric,” said Djokovic, who wants to win the 19th Grand Slam title of his career on Sunday. This would put him within one of Roger Federer and Nadal. For Nadal it was only the third defeat in the 108th game at the Stade Roland Garros. The Spaniard left his absolute favorite place deeply disappointed. “That's sport - sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I had a great chance in the third set at 6:5 and set point and missed it. If you want to win, you can’t make these mistakes,” said the Spaniard. A logical finale After the most successful player on clay, Djokovic now has to deal with the most successful player of the season so far. Even though Djokovic won the Australian Open, the Greek Tsitsipas accumulated the most points in 2021. But Djokovic is only 190 points behind in second place, so in some respects it is a logical finale. In any case, these two will now continue to distance themselves in the annual rankings.

In the head-to-head with Tsitsipas, Djokovic is 5-2 ahead and has won all three previous duels on clay. He won the last one so far this year in the Rome quarter-finals with 4:6, 7:5, 7:5. Both have already won two titles this year. After reaching the Melbourne semi-finals, Tsitsipas has now taken the next step and is the first Greek to reach a major final. Now the 22-year-old wants to follow up with his first Grand Slam triumph.

“I will leave my entire body on the pitch in the final,” Tsitsipas said of his determination. He made this opportunity possible thanks to the 6:3, 6:3, 4:6, 4:6, 6:3 win over Alexander Zverev. The German will have to wait for his first title win at the four most valuable tournaments.

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After Nadal's disempowerment: Djokovic wants his 19th Grand Slam title

After his world-class performance against Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic wants to take it easy the day before the final against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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