Four-time defending champion Novak Djokovic takes on Andrey Rublev within the quarterfinals of The Championships Wimbledon 2023 on the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in London on Tuesday.
The conflict is scheduled to be the final match on the Centre Court on the ninth day of this 12 months’s version.
When and the place to look at?
The quarterfinal conflict between Novak Djokovic and Andrey Rublev will probably be telecast reside on Star Sports 2 and Star Sports Select and reside streaming will probably be accessible on Disney+Hotstar. The match might probably begin at 7:30PM IST.
Second seed Djokovic comes into the quarterfinal after his hardest take a look at to this point. After straight-sets win within the first three rounds, he was taken to 4 units together with two very tight tiebreaks by Seventeenth-seeded Pole Hubert Hurkacz.
The Serbian is chasing his twenty fourth Major title to equal Margaret Court’s all-time file. He can be trying to win his fifth straight Wimbledon championship and eighth total to tie Roger Federer’s all-time males’s file on the grass courtroom Slam.
The 36-year-old Djokovic is unbeaten at The Championships within the final 32 matches and has not misplaced a match on Centre Court since his defeat towards Andy Murray within the 2013 ultimate.
Seventh-seeded Russian Rublev has needed to work extraordinarily exhausting to succeed in his maiden quarterfinal at Wimbledon. He dropped a set every within the second and third spherical however his largest problem got here within the spherical of 16 when he squandered a two-set lead towards Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. However, Rublev managed to remain calm and declare an exhilarating 7-5, 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-7(5), 6-4 win.
Head-to-head file
Played: 4 | Djokovic: 3 | Rublev: 1
Djokovic and Rublev have confronted one another 4 instances and the Serbian has received thrice. Rublev’s solely victory towards Djokovic got here in entrance of the Serbian’s residence crowd final 12 months within the ultimate of the ATP 250 occasion in Belgrade. Their most up-to-date assembly occurred within the quarterfinals of this 12 months’s Australian Open the place Djokovic merely thrashed Rublev.
Beating Djokovic on grass primarily requires an enormous serve however even that is probably not sufficient, as confirmed by the fourth spherical match he had towards Hurkacz. Rublev might want to do one thing particular to win towards the four-time defending champion and attain his first semifinal at The Championships.
YEAR | TOURNAMENT | ROUND | WINNER | SCORE |
2023 | AUSTRALIAN OPEN | QUARTERFINAL | DJOKOVIC | 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 |
2022 | ATP FINALS | ROUND ROBIN | DJOKOVIC | 6-4, 6-1 |
2022 | ATP 250 BELGRADE | FINAL | RUBLEV | 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-0 |
2021 | ATP FINALS | ROUND ROBIN | DJOKOVIC | 6-3, 6-2 |
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Source: sportstar.thehindu.com