Novak Djokovic reaffirms its hegemony. The world number one, implacable, ended Sunday at the American dream of Roger Federer and offered in New York his third Grand Slam title of the year, the tenth of his career. To achieve this, he braved particularly hostile conditions: rain, public to the cause of his opponent and Federer sparkling throughout the tournament. Nothing and no one managed to upset Djokovic.
At 28, the Serbian showed mental Robustness: it’s in his head, even more than his tennis, that “Djoko” won this final intense 2015 for two undecided hours and sometimes bordering on great.
Before win last too long on a backhand Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, Djokovic as his opponent from the rest, had deal first with the vagaries of the weather. Showers delayed fifteen minutes fifteen minutes in the beginning of the final, which was originally scheduled to begin at 16:00 local and kick the clash between the two best players in the world finally took place three hours later than expected.
It then took Djokovic keep everything calm when he felt very quickly that the 26,000 spectators in the Arthur Ashe Stadium were, with few exceptions, came to attend the coronation of Federer, “darling” of New York where he made the law without interruption from 2004 to 2008.
Djokovic at the edge of breaking
Support for Federer sometimes curled the hostility, especially when the world number 1 was missing its first services. But his mind was also boosted very quickly: when he lost his serve just twice in six matches since the start of the tournament, Federer lost two of his first four service game.
The first leg shoved in 41 minutes for the Serb who was the first to take him a set. Since the beginning of her North American tour in mid-August in Cincinnati, he won the tournament by defeating … Djokovic in the final, “Fed” had won 28 sets without losing a single. In the second set, “Nole” had however to a burst of Federer mounted more to the net and that put pressure on a number of occasions in particular trying his new return service called “stealth”. Result after ninth game fifteen minutes and anthology, Federer pocketed the second run and equalized in one set all.
The Swiss, seeking his first Grand Slam title since July 2012, even seemed to take the ascendancy, morally and physically: 4-3, he offered two break points on the Djokovic service, at the edge of the break, but has missed his chance.
Federer: “I had the key”
In the next game, Djokovic, yet led 40-15, has made the break to lead 5-4. Federer did not recover: he is offered two more break points in the tenth game, but Djokovic did not tremble. In the fourth set, Djokovic quickly escaped to lead 3-1, then 5-2, but it was a moment of hesitation.
At 5-4, Federer tried the all out and offered two more break points with a winning backhand volley and an unstoppable, but as a summary of the meeting, he left his chance and allowed Djokovic to pocket his seventh title of the year played in eleven finals. “I am very disappointed, I created my opportunities, I never had to find me to lead two sets to one but Novak really did the right thing,” admitted Federer who has materialized four his 23 break points. “I had a good year, my game is constant, Cincinnati is a good memory with victories in rapid succession on the number2 and world number 1 (Murray and Djokovic, Ed), which had never happened to me” , he stressed.
At 34, Federer does not despair: “I had the keys in hand”, he concluded.
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