Australian stuns world No 2 with 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 win in the US Open as the Serbian is made to wait in attempt to claim 25th singles title
Novak Djokovic has been knocked out of the 2024 US Open in the third round in a shock defeat by Australia’s Alexei Popyrin in New York.Novak Djokovic has been knocked out of the 2024 US Open in the third round in a shock defeat by Australia’s Alexei Popyrin in New York.Shooting star Alexei Popyrin has shattered Novak Djokovic’s latest quest for tennis immortality with a hoodoo-busting third-round US Open triumph in New York.
Djokovic dropped serve five times and coughed up another extraordinary 14 double-faults to take his tournament tally to a shocking 32 in eight-and-a-bit sets including a Djokovic had also denied Popyrin in four sets at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open this year. But “not tonight”, Popyrin could have said this time when the pair shook hands at the net on tennis’s biggest stage as more than 23,000 fans digested the monumental upset.
In a huge turning point, Popyrin held serve from 0-40 in the sixth game of the opening set before breaking Djokovic at 4-4 and closing out the set to love. The gritty underdog shrugged off the disappointment of not nabbing another break in the first game of the second set when Djokovic dished out three double-faults.Popyrin patiently waited for another chance, and took it with a sizzling forehand pass to break for 5-3 and then seize a commanding two-sets-to-love advantage.
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