Paris, November 4 (BNA): Novak Djokovic qualified for the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters on Thursday without playing any point due to the withdrawal of injured Gael Monfils.
Monfils, who was 0-17 against top-ranked Djokovic, said he has an adductor muscle injury, according to the Associated Press.
Fourth seed Alexander Zverev qualified for the quarter-finals after defeating No. 16 Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 6-3 in an intense 2 hours 45 minutes contest where Dimitrov saved two matches. point in the second set.
Zverev broke the 4-3 lead in a tight first set but broke again to 5-5 when he sent for the set. He dominated the tiebreak and grabbed it with a shot into the net.
Zverev saved a break point with a header in the ninth game of the second set and then took two match points with Dimitrov’s 6-5 serve. Dimitrov saved both of them by hitting the net.
In the tiebreak, Dimitrov took a 6-1 lead and then grabbed it with a serve win, after Zverev saved the two set points.
Momentum finally drove away from Dimitrov when he failed to punish Zverev in the sixth game of the decider, when Zverev was dropping 0-40 on serve. Zverev broke the lead 4-3 and saved another break point in the next game.
Then the imposing German converted his third match point when Dimitrov scored the ball into the net.
Zverev will play either sixth-seeded Casper Ruud or American Marcus Geron.
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