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Djokovic overcame injury at Roland Garros

The boring match for most of the time when Moutet could not constantly challenge Djokovic, then lost the gap 3-6, 2-6 in the first two sets. The French tennis player prefers impromptu style, many times small or performed performances, but this does not make Djokovic distract. Due to this wound, Nole cut off the attacks, proactively ending the balls and errors appeared more. Moutet thus created a balanced battle, before entering the tie-break. In this series, Djokovic as usual is still more accurate and more alert than the opponents. He continuously won the mini-break to go to the gap 7-1.

"I have some problems but know I have enough energy to overcome ", Djokovic said after the match. "I tried to keep calm in pressure moments, this is not easy ".

The 98th victory of Djokovic at the Major of the land. Historically, indicating Rafael Nadal reached 100 victories of Roland Garros (112). Djokovic once went to 99 victories in Australia early this year, before giving up in the semi -final with Alexander Zverev. He had been eliminated in the second round of 2005 when he was 18 years old. Before Djokovic, only Roger Federer had more than 20 times in the third round of a Grand Slam, in Australia expanded (21 times).

Djokovic will fight another low -class player, Filip Misolic in the third round. Austrian player is currently ranked 153th in the world but has type 27 Denis Shapovalov after the year set. The branch of Djokovic was cleansing the seeds when his potential opponent in the fourth round was one of the United Kingdom, Cameron Norrie or Jacob Fearnley.

The true challenge will come to Nole in the quarterfinals when Alexander Zverev is approaching this round. The third seed surpassed Jesper de Jong 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6, 2-6 Alexandar Bublik Jakub Mensik 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 3-6, 3-6 Henrique Rocha Alexander Zverev 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 Jesper de Jong Jannik sinner 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 Richard Gasquet Flavio cobolli 6-3, 6-3, 6-7, 6-1 Matteo Arnaldi