Novak Djokovic's triple double fault mishap on way to first round win | SMHsport
Even when you are the second seed, have won here seven times and are favoured to win an eighth time this year, even when a victory would be your 900th on the world tennis tour, the game still asks unexpected questions of you.
Of course Djokovic responded to that surprising triple double-fault mishap and took an early lead in the fourth set against German Jan-Lennard Struff and went on to win the match in that fourth set 7-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1, but it remained a quirky misstep.Things began by way of the courteous formality of a first round. Struff was the obliging counterpoint offering the sufficiently challenging but not onerous workout the defending champion required.
"At the same time I try to remind myself I have to be grateful to be still playing at a very high level, the sport that I truly love," he said. "I was a four-year-old and grabbed the tennis racquet for the first time. Saw it on the TV in Serbia, that doesn't have a really tennis tradition at that time, at least it didn't. Just everything seemed quite impossible at the time. But here we are, you know, 20, 25 years later. I can't take things for granted. I am trying to enjoy every moment."
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