Friday is men’s semi-final day in Melbourne and the favourite is squaring off with the American outsider. Join Luke McLaughlin
First up, Paul immediately tries to attack Djokovic’s second serve, but nets an ambitious, high-velocity return for 15-0. Djokovic messes up a smash for 15-15, and Paul has a flicker of a chance at 15-30, after again looking to attack, hitting powerfully from the baseline.
Djokovic takes it back to 30-30 with an unreturnable serve … but then double faults! It’s a break point for Paul at the first time of asking. A beefy serve down the middle from the Serb gets him out of a hole. Deuce. Djokovic soon has advantage, too, but hits long and it’s back to parity. A second break point for Paul comes when Djokovic hits an odd, tired looking backhand into the net. But again he produces a powerful first serve to save himself, then thumps an ace out wide. Another ace, down the middle, and that’s the game. A positive approach from Paul, anyway, and early work to do for Djokovic.
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