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First set: Novak Djokovic 4-1* Dominic Thiem: All the action so far is on Dominic Thiem’s serve. Once again, Djokovic breezes through another service game. After arriving at 40-0 thanks to more excellent serving, he took his second game point with a glorious backhand down the line winner after a long rally.
First set: Novak Djokovic *3-1 Dominic Thiem: Thiem digs out an excellent first hold, but even that was so difficult. Djokovic has been so aggressive early on and he is controlling far more of the rallies than Thiem expected.
Djokovic sent a forehand wide at 30-30, then immediately responded by crunching a crosscourt forehand winner. He went on the prowl again at deuce, but Thiem came up with some incredible defence, throwing up a beautiful lob over Djokovic’s head and then moving forward to dispatch Djokovic’s tweener. He held with a nice serve-forehand combo.
Written by Tumaini Carayol
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