Supporters of the Australian Open still have reason to enjoy the highest quality of tennis in the semi-final between Serb Novak Djokovic and Swiss Roger Federer, a match in which the Serb starts as a big favorite.
Novak Djokovic
◾️The Serbian player, even though he finished well last season, winning the last Masters tournament in Paris, fell to second place in the ATP standings, following his main rival, the Iberian Rafael Nadal.
◾️In Australia he feels excellent, winning most of his career trophies, and at the beginning of this year, he was the main element in Serbia’s victory in the ATP Cup.
◾️It seems unstoppable at this edition of the Australian Open, losing only one set in the entire tournament, even in the first round against Struff, while in previous rounds he eliminated players like Milos Raonic or Diego Schwartzman.
Roger Federer
◾️The 38-year-old Swiss player is still in the top 5 of the ATP standings, being in 3rd place at the moment.
◾️He played quite a few tournaments in the circuit, conserving his energy very well for the important matches of the season, and this year he did not play any preparation match before the Australian Open.
◾️After the marathon against John Millman, which he defeated 10-8 in the tiebreaker, Roger saved no less than 7 balls against Tennys Sandgren in the quarterfinals, winning the decisive set.
🎾Direct meetings
✔️The two players have met up to 50 times so far, the score being 28-22 in favor of Serbian, and the most recent meeting between the two took place at last year’s Champions Tournament, where Federer won at least seven sets.
Novak Djokovic: Team shape, news and statistics
◽️Novak (32 years old) is the reigning champion from Melbourne and has the most titles won in the history of the Australian Open – 7.
◽️Apart from the matches with Raonic and Struff, two big servers, the Serb kept the limit of sets 1 below the limit set by Betano.ro.
◽️With Schwartzman, Nishioka and Ito spent no more than 38 minutes on the field until he closed the rounds in his favor.
◽️Djokovic served very well in the previous 5 games on the main board, averaging almost 2 minutes for each game in which he returned the ball.
Roger Federer: Team shape, news and statistics
◽️Roger (38 years old) miraculously survived this tournament, managing to return the matches with Millman and Sandgren from in-extremity situations.
◽️With the Australian he returned from 4-8 in set 5, and with the American he saved 7 match balls in set 4.
◽️Both parties represented tennis marathons over 3 and a half hours, which left serious traces on the veteran’s physical ability. Switzerland.
◽️Federer also has 6 trophies at the Australian Open, the last one won in 2018.
◽️He is now considered an outsider, especially as temperatures in Antiposes have started to rise above 30 degrees and his resistance is considerably lower.
◽️On Wednesday, he canceled the official training session, preferring to rest and recover.
◽️Melbourne’s inaugural sets lasted – 34 minutes with Sandgren, 36 minutes with Fucsovics (lost), 32 minutes with Millman (lost), 20 minutes with Krajinovic and 32 minutes with Johnson.
🎾Direct match statistics Novak Djokovic vs Roger Federer
✔️It will be episode 50 of this modern tennis classic.
✔️Nole leads 27-23, but Roger prevailed in the last straight duel, in November 2019, from the Champions Tournament with a score of 6-4 6-3, in two short sets, 72 minutes.
🎾The latest information before playing betting odds Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic.
Roger Federer
▪️A 6-time winner in Melbourne, the Swiss veteran has hardly prevailed in the previous round against Sandgren, in the decisive set.
▪️The experience helped Roger save no less than 7 balls of the match, putting his opponent under pressure.
▪️He suffered a lot as a result of an injury, which caused him problems in sets two and three.
▪️Given the short recovery time he had available, I do not think he has regained his powers.
Novak Djokovic
▪️It was expected that Djoker would have problems in the quarterfinals against Raonic but, once again, if needed, Novak outdid himself and outclassed the Canadian, defeating him in the least sets.
▪️He has made a very solid tournament so far, giving up only one set, surprisingly, even in the first round, with Struff.
▪️The Serb has always felt good at the Australian Open, a tournament he has won 8 times in the past.
▪️He already has 12 wins and one defeat so far by 2020, which means the season has started in full force.
🎾Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic live dating.
✔️The two players wrote the story of a sensational rivalry, having played 50 official matches in the past.
✔️Nole leads the series with a score of 27 to 23 at the moment, but Federer prevailed in the most recent duel at the ATP Finals last year.
🎾What is the shape of the players in the last 5 matches?
Roger Federer
▫️Swiss Roger Federer, 38, currently ranked third in the world rankings, is present for the 21st consecutive year in Melbourne, on the main table of the Australian Grand Slam.
▫️A year ago, he left the competition since the sixteenth round of the final, defeated in 4 sets, score 7-6, 6-7, 5-7, 6-7 by the young Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas.
▫️If in the first two rounds of the current edition, Federer did not encounter difficulties in the company of tennis players such as Steve Johnson (75 ATP), or Filip Krajinovic (41 ATP), whom he defeated with 3-0 sets, in the third round, Swissman needed more than 4 hours to go 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 from Australian John Millman.
▫️In the eighth, the former world number one outscored the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics by 3-1, and in the quarter-finals he saved 7 match balls in set 4, finally managing to win 3-2 in the sets ,against American Tennys Sandgren, 100th place ATP.
Novak Djokovic
▫️World number two, Serb Novak Djokovic, 32, winner of the previous edition of the Australian Grand Slam, has an almost perfect track this year, losing only one set on his way to Melbourne’s eighth trophy in the confrontation with the German Jan Lennard Struff, whom he defeated in the opening round, by 7-6, 6-2, 2-6 and 6-1.
▫️Then followed another 4 victories, all in minimum sets, against the Japanese Tatsuma Ito and Yoshihito Nihioka, of the Argentine Diego Sebastian Schwartzman, but also of the Canadian Milos Raonic, 35th place ATP, in the phase of the quarter finals of the race.
▫️Nole returns for the 16th consecutive year in Melbourne, after a series of 6 victories, of all possible, obtained in the ATP Cup, against opponents of the caliber, including Gael Monfils, Denis Shapovalov, Daniil Medvedev, or Rafael Nadal.
🎾News, analysis, statistics and progress about the 2 players.
Roger Federer
◾️His record includes no less than 105 ATP trophies.
◾️To these are added another 54 finals played in the circuit.
◾️Federer has won the Australian Open trophy 6 times, the last time two years ago.
◾️Only once in the previous 6 duels played in Serbian company Novak Djokovic.
◾️In 2019 he supported 67 official parties, on all areas, managing to win 57 of them.
Novak Djokovic
◾️He is undefeated this year, losing only three sets over the 11 games played.
◾️Each time he passed the stage of the quarter-finals of the competition he was awarded the trophy put in play by the organizers.
◾️86% is the percentage of games won by the Serbian tennis player on his own service, within the ATP competitions disputed over the years.
◾️The balance of the direct meetings is favorable to Novak Djokovic, 28 wins out of a total of 51 duels.
◾️In 2019 he completed his trophy dowry with 5 other ATP titles: Australian Open, Madrid (clay), Wimbledon (grass), Tokyo (hard) and Paris (hard).
Tennis Prediction of the Day Novak Djokovic vs Roger Federer
Roger Federer has consumed a lot of energy in this tournament, accusing Tennys Sandgren of a match and an accidental injury, and his game did not look as good as in the last match directly against Novak Djokovic, and the Australian Open is Serbia’s favorite tournament. I expect the latter to be in control of the party and obtain an easy qualification in the last act.
Prediction Today: N. Djokovic -4.5 games
Odds: 1.47
I go for the first short set, which will take less than 43 minutes. Roger Federer did not train normally before this semifinal, being slightly injured in the final.
His course was much more difficult, with 2 games ended in the decisive set, but most of the matches were under 42.5 minutes.
Novak Djokovic has a rematch to take, after being demoted from the position of world leader, at the end of the previous season, I expect him to evolve very motivated from the beginning and make an early break for the Swiss.
On a mental level, the Serb is probably the most powerful tennis player on the circuit at the moment.
Bet Tips: Under 42.5 minutes – Set 1
Odds: 1.80
