Often battered in recent weeks, Novak Djokovic ended up losing on Wednesday, 8th in finals at Indian Wells against Ivan Ljubicic (7 / 5 6 / 3).
In Dubai, on the road to his first title of the year, Novak Djokovic made a specialty of losing the first set to come back very strong and then eventually win. This scenario, the Serb had completed three times, including a quarter-final at the expense of a certain Ivan Ljubicic, the very man who donned the costume executioner Wednesday. But it is doubtful anyway what must have felt when the Croatian Djokovic got a ball débreak the second set to 5-3 in his favor ... In any case, his huge smile at the end of the meeting in spoke volumes about his joy, but his relief not to have left Belgrade head out of water. During the first round, the two men exchanged a break for anything before giving the impression of going to a tiebreak to tie. Except that when leveling at 6-6, the world number 2 took to their feet in the carpet and Ljubicic converted the gift with pleasure (7 / 5).
Djokovic could return:Very quickly, the Croatian sat his dominance with a new estate, he confirmed with great blows of aces (4-1). But the nearer he came the moment of conclusion and therefore more the Dalmatian began to tremble. The fear of winning, which is most against an opponent who had beaten five times in their six previous encounters? Maybe. The fact is that Djokovic glean three balls débreak. Without converting a single (7 / 5 6 / 3). For the first time in years, a Masters in 1000 finds herself deprived of her two main seeded before the quarterfinals. In the next round, Ljubicic will have him a good shot to play against Juan Monaco, who won in straight sets to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (3 / 6 6 / 2 6 / 1).
Results of the 8th finals :
Monaco (Arg, 21)Garcia-Lopez (Esp) 6 / 3 2 / 6 6 / 1
Ljubicic (Cro, 20)-Djokovic (Ser, 2) 7 / 5 6 / 3
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