Novak Djokovic overcame an issue involving his father to achieve a document tenth Australian Open last on Friday with a 7-5 6-1 6-2 win over Tommy Paul of America.
Nine-time champion Djokovic will tackle third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in Sunday’s decider, earlier than the Greek booked his maiden last at Melbourne Park after defeating Russia’s Karen Khachanov within the first semi-final.
Serbia’s Djokovic’s father Srjan distracted his son forward of the semi-finals after a video emerged of him carrying Russian flags together with followers who had been banned from Melbourne Park initially of the match.
With Srijan refusing to participate within the semi-finals for concern of inflicting additional disruption to his son, fourth seed Djokovic was initially in a foul temper at Rod Laver Arena and raced to a 5–1 lead within the first set, as The unseeded Paul took a 5-5 lead. 5.
Djokovic then knelt down.
In a livid counter-attack, he gained 14 of the following 17 video games to seal a one-sided victory in his bid for a twenty second Grand Slam title.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
