Djokovic was eliminated early in Monte Carlo Masters
2:29pm, 12 May 2025More Sports
The ambition to win each Masters 1000 award three times or more of Djokovic failed, when he a second consecutive loss lost to Tabilo in less than a year. Tabilo, who once defeated Djokovic in Rome Masters last year, became the ninth player in the history of defeating Djokovic in both meetings first, besides names like Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer.
is in a decline, Tabilo still shows that he is a rival to hold with Nole - the winner of 10 lands against the opponent Chile. Djokovic started well when he took advantage of the break-point in the first game, but he was inferior to the rest of the match against the left-handed player. Nole made up to 29 errors of self -damage, nearly double Tabilo, while only the number of Winner is equivalent to juniors.

The third in the last four Djokovic tournaments were eliminated in the first match, after defeating Matteo Berrettini in Doha and Botic Van de Zandschulp at Indian Wells. "I know that the opponent is difficult to play and I may not fight well. But so bad that I did not expect to ", Djokovic said after the match. "This feeling is really bad, and I apologize to all those who have witnessed my performance ".
Djokovic continues to miss an appointment with the 100th title. In Monte Carlo, the companion of the Serbia player Marko Djokovic.
Carlos Alcaraz, the loser of Nole 4-6 in the previous set of episodes, won the right to the Three round of Monte Carlo Masters, when winning back 3-6, 6-0, 6-1 against Francisco Cerundolo. Andy Roddick to get the third place in the list of the most winning male players in the Masters 1000 system before the age of 22. The two of them standing on Alcaraz in the list are Rafael Nadal (110 matches) and Novak Djokovic (75).

The match shows that Alcaraz has excelled in the ability to change tactics. After losing the first set because of the Cerundolo to master the game with effective delivery games and entered the pitch, Alcaraz changed the way to return the ball in the two set. The paid scores have difficulty falling, at a faster speed to help Alcaraz achieve the rate of 44% to return the ball a successful ball, making a fulcrum for winning 12 of the last 13 games, including seven consecutive winning games from the beginning of the two set. Before this match, Mr. Hoa 14-14 when facing the top 10 and only lost 2-3 when he met the top 3. The achievement of 17 matches from the beginning of the year Cerundolo was the best ATP Tour, on par with Alex De Minaur. But Cerundolo lost to Alcaraz twice, the latest is the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open.
The instability serve is still the weakness of Alcaraz when he faces the four break-point four, including two points in the first delivery game. But the decisive finishes from the powerful hand and transformation from the end of the pitch helped the 21 -year -old player to save these four points. In Set Ba, Alcaraz does not give Cerundolo the opportunity to break the game, surpassing the lead 5-1 thanks to taking advantage of two consecutive break-point. Although the Argentina rival tries to save the two match-point in the last game, Alcaraz still finishes successfully with a small shot to win the final. The player owns 4 Grand Slam not attending the last two years due to injury. He played 100 matches on the red dust yard and won 82 of them. The 82%win rate is only inferior to Nadal (91%) and Bjorn Borg (86%), and is slightly better than Djokovic (81%).
The opponent in the third round of Alcaraz is the player playing from the Daniel Altmaier qualifier. The German player is becoming an umbrella of the tournament when defeating Felix Auger -anssime and Richard Gasquet respectively in the first two rounds.