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Spain's Roberto Bautista Agot beat seventh-seed Novak Djokovic of the Doha Tennis Tournament semifinal with a 3-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 victory. , in the semifinals.
Djokovic looked set to win an easy victory after winning the first set 6-3, but lost a second time in favor of the Spaniard after a break, before hitting hard and winning a third 6-4 .
Bautista ended the three consecutive victories of Djokovic in Doha at age 13 (2016 and 2017 and missed 2018 due to injury), denying him the third title in the Gulf emirate and 73 in his career, and the second after his title at the tournament in Abu Dhabi at the end of last year.
Bautista's only second win came in 9 games between him and Djokovic after the first semifinal of the 2016 Shanghai Chinese Games, one of the 1,000 point masters.
The new season is the dominant candidate for domination in the second half of 2018, with two headlines (Wimbledon English and Flushing Meadows) and returned to the top of the rankings after being lost early in the year due to # 39, surgery.
Djokovic expressed dissatisfaction with the defeat, noting that he still aims to win the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam, which begins in the middle of the month.
At a press conference after the match, Djokovic said his only goal in Melbourne was to win the trophy.
Djokovic began a tense discussion with a journalist who then asked him "even after this week?"
"Why, do you think that after this week, I do not deserve to be a candidate for the title?", I say even after this week, I do not understand this comment, "he said. declared." You asked me what was my goal. "He said.
Djokovic has been crowned six times in Australia, most recently in 2016, when he defeated Andy Murray, before leaving the second round the following year with Denis Istomin, of Uzbekistan, and the fourth last year by South Korean Zhong Hyun.
Djokovic broke with Bautista Agot in the second half of the first set, progressing 2-0 and maintaining a lead of 6-3 in 39 minutes.
Djokovic waited for the seventh half of the second run to beat the Spaniards for the second time in the match and advance 4-3, but Bautista Agot reacted directly to him, aware of the draw, which angered the Serb, who broke his racket by hitting the ground several times.
Bautista Agot had two chances to break Djokovic's lead in the 12th minute and the group failed, but failed to draw 6-6. Both players had a 6-6 win and the second set in 74 minutes.
The Spaniards maintained their advantage early in the third set and broke Djokovic's lead in the first period, keeping him until he finished 6-4 in favor of the player in 42 minutes.
The 16th final of the Bautista took place in his professional career of eight titles, the last one having taken place in Dubai last February.
Bautista Agot, who eliminated Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka from the quarter-finals on Thursday, beat Czech Tomas Berdych of Italy 7-4 (8-6), 6-3 in an hour and 29 minutes in the first game.
Bautista has already met six times Agot and Brdic, and the Czech Republic has four wins against two defeats.
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