'Having a tournament a week after that (US Open incident) happened helped a lot.'🎾 A tumultuous few weeks for the Djoker has ended with more record-breaking silverware!🏆🏆 READ MORE: 9WWOS Tennis
He also passed childhood idol Pete Sampras for the second-most weeks at No.1 with 287 — and trails only Roger Federer's 310 weeks in the top spot.In the women's final, top-seeded Simona Halep won her first Rome title when 2019 champion Karolína Plíšková retired midway through their match with a left thigh injury.The only player to take a set off Djokovic this week was German qualifier Dominik Koepfer in the quarter-finals.
Able to run down virtually everything, the 170cm Schwartzman gave Djokovic fits early on, when there was a brief rain shower. Halep, who lost the 2017 and 2018 Rome finals to Elina Svitolina, extended her perfect record in tennis' restart to 10-0.
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