Djokovic Upset By Querry – No Grand Slam This Year

There must be something in the water over there in England. Today, Sam Querrey completed a stunning upset of Novak Djokovic 7-6, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6. As suspected, the combination of a big server and some below average play from Djokovic led to his defeat. Querrey’s was serve was virtually untouchable in the first two sets until rain halted play for the day. It looked as though Novak had righted the ship as he rallied to take the third set 6-3. And Djokovic looked like he was on his way to one of his incredible, but typical, comebacks when he broke Querrey early in the fourth. But he had foolishly used up his challenges and two balls that Djokovic hit were called out were shown by replay to have just clipped the chalk. Unable to challenge, Djokovic lost those two points and was unable to consolidate the break. Throughout the match and especially in the fourth set tie-break, Djokovic just did not look comfortable and perhaps the pressure of the calendar Grand Slam was just starting to get to him. But that is gone now – blown away by Querrey’s overpowering serve.