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Djokovic won back in the day Federer came to see

11:02pm, 13 July 2025【More Sports】

Federer and his wife Mirka are honorary guests on the first day of Wimbledon's second week. Swiss legend is present on the royal seat area in the central yard, before Djokovic and De Minaur entered the field. Federer then took nearly 4 hours to watch Nole's most difficult match from the beginning of the tournament.

Other styles of fast winning in the previous two rounds, Djokovic has difficulty right away with De Minaur. The sixth seed catches the slow rhythm, plays awkwardly at the ability to move fast. Djokovic also often broke up when on the net, lost two of the first three games. When he had the opportunity to equalize, he also missed the break-point in the second game.

De Minaur was not overwhelming from the ends of the pitch, but the shadow was good and impressive moving to cover the yard. The maneuver helps the Australian player to overwhelm Djokovic and win another ball game to finish the first set with a bold score of 6-1. Djokovic has exploited this from Set Hai, with a series of situations on two corners, combining short balls to break the opponent. Despite continuing to lose to the game, Djokovic forced De Minaur in the game to support the ball and continuously demanded the break-point. De Minaur made 15 errors that damage this set, more than 5 errors in the one set. He failed three of the four games holding the ball, and missed two of the three break-point in the last game.

The 6-4 victory in the two paved ways for Djokovic to continue exploiting De Minaur's endurance in the rest of the match. In the last two sets, Djokovic is more ready in the ends of the pitch and often dominates thanks to the diverse ball ability. On the other side of the net, De Minaur did not have any finish shot and had to rely on the force to force the opponent to beat. The ability to serve the ball is limited, with the rate of the ball in the yard only 55%, also makes him play more and more drowning. Seed No. 11 loses 4-6 in set two, then loses against this ratio in the four sets despite the lead 4-1.

The 101st victory put Nole in the 16th Wimbledon quarterfinals. He is only inferior to Federer these statistics (105 wins and 17 times in the quarterfinals), and is also pursuing a record 8 times of the elder championship. "Sometimes I wish I had a serve on the net and the feeling of soft shadow like a gentleman standing there", Djokovic joked when he looked towards Federer in an interview after the match. "This is the first time he came to see that I won, several times ago I lost ". Federer responded with applause and smile. Cobolli is young and is in high form, but in theory he is still a more comfortable opponent than the names that Djokovic can meet in the quarterfinals such as Jack Draper, Alexander Bublik or Jakub Mensik. Djokovic won Cobolli in the only time they met before, in Shanghai Masters last year.