Deyo won the 100th championship and was highly praised by McEnroe and called him the third favorite to win the French Open

"Each of his titles is like the reincarnation of an unexploded bomb on the battlefield in Kosovo, with the smell of gunpowder on the pitch." This is a comment written by a netizen after Djokovic won the 100th crown of his career, and Djokovic in this game really deserves such a high evaluation.

Switching to Geneva, Djokovic shook off his old sluggish form, ending his singles losing streak and winning three consecutive matches to advance to the final, where he faced Poland's Hurkacz. Djokovic is no stranger to his old rival. Having won all seven of their last seven meetings with him, the Pole, despite his powerful serve and strong forehand, will clearly lose his attacking power on clay, so many fans believe that the Geneva title is already Djokovic's "bag".

However, when it came to the game, it was Hurkacz who got into the groove first. Hurkacz started the first set with a stormy attack, with the 196-centimeter-tall Pole using his powerful serve and aggressive forehand to tear down Djokovic's baseline and keep Djokovic under pressure. At the end of the set, Djokovic made a double fault in a game that had to be saved, and Hurkacz made a crucial break to take the lead 7-5.

In the first set, Djokovic's movement was heavy, and his constant kneading of his left knee during the match was a source of concern for spectators – the shadow of his retirement from the Rome Masters before the Rome Masters appeared to be lingering a month ago.

In the second set, Djokovic still struggled to find opportunities on Hurkacz's serve, so the two could only fight all the way to a tie-break. In the tie-break, Hurkacz was the first to be broken by Djokovic, and then, when the score came to the crucial 4-2, Djokovic suddenly exerted his strength, and three consecutive back-shots crossed the ball as accurately as a scalpel to tie the set 7-2.

In the deciding set, Djokovic suffered a break as soon as he came up, which made many fans sweat for him. However, Djokovic did not panic, and after holding his serve, he moved his return position back 1.5 meters, thus magically dissolving his opponent's service advantage and breaking back in the crucial eighth game to make it 4-4. After 2-3, Hurkacz made the first mistake and three consecutive unforced forehand errors gave Djokovic a 6-2 lead, and finally Djokovic won the game with a goodbye ace, thus completing a shocking reversal with two 7-6.

Looking at the full-time stats, Djokovic's first-serve scoring rate was just 63 percent, well below the season average of 74 percent. But he has a supernatural performance in the second serve, and the second serve scoring rate has reached 67%, which has also become the key to the victory or defeat of the game. Especially after dropping the first set, Djokovic managed to avoid Hurkacz's violent forehand volley as much as possible by increasing the spin of his second serve by 15% and landing in the deep area of his opponent's backhand. What's even more impressive is his success rate – 15 of his opponent's 22 netting attempts, 11 of which are straight backshots, the pinnacle of defensive art with the precision of "carving time on the tip of a knife".

Djokovic's performance was also praised by his opponent Hurkacz, who admitted, "I was only two points away from victory, but Novak proved why he is the best ever. He seems to have a supercomputer in his brain that can calculate 200 responses in an instant. "Maybe I need to hire a philosopher as a coach to understand how he makes the impossible possible." ”

McEnroe, who watched the match, was also full of praise for Djokovic tonight, and after this match, he even bluntly said that Djokovic is still the third favorite to win the French Open this year after Alcaraz and Sinner.

"You might look back and see that he lost and say, ah, you see, he's 38 years old, so old. Time caught up with him, or something. But you can't leave him out, he's more attractive than anyone. You know, Zverev didn't play as confidently as he did before this year's Australian final, he wasn't. It really hurt him, I think, mentally, at least from what I've seen. He doesn't seem to be playing with the same confidence. So I can see that it is possible for him to get there, and whether Zverev is there or not, I don't think Novak will be a loser there. Who knows what happened to the others, and what if one of them got hurt? You don't know. So for me, Novak is still the third most popular person. McEnroe said.

However, in my opinion, no matter how Djokovic performs at the French Open, his presence is constantly redefining "greatness". As Djokovic walked into the tunnel with the trophy in his arms, the camera swept over the sign held up by a white-haired old man in the stands: "36→37→∞". I think Djokovic is really using everything to change our "time verdict", the number of championships from 99 to 100 is not a simple addition, but all the points of defeat and pain, he deserves the title of "king", he is a real fighter.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Lu Xiaotian)