Tokyo: Novak Djokovic threw his racket to the empty stands and destroyed the other at a net post when he lost cool on his way to beat Pablo Carreno Busta in a bronze Olympic medal match on Saturday.
The main champion 20 times, the Golden Grand Slam hopes to be hijacked by Alexander Zverev on Friday, losing 6-4, 6-7 (6/7), 6-3 because Spain Carreno Busta won at the sixth match.
This is the first time Djokovic seeds have lost two single matches directly since being defeated by Dominic Thiem and Roger Federer in the 2019 ATP tour final.
The match was the gripped meeting that was played for two hours and 47 minutes above Tokyo’s heat who suffocated, with both men broke up Asa to secure a medal.
Djokovic, who will bid to win the last leg of the Grand Slam calendar in the US Open, which starts next month, saves the match point in the second set of tie-break to force the deciding and four more late in the third set.
But Spain Carreno Busta, who also knocked down the two seeds Danil Medvedev before in the tournament, hit 32 winners in excellent performance, with Djokovic management only 18.
30-year-old children finally wrapped up victory in the last match at that time the opponent placed forehand to the internet.
Djokovic brought his famous default memory against Carreno Busta last year at the US Open, when he accidentally hit the ball at the judge’s line.
He threw his racket into empty stands when he saw the break point coming and went in the opening game of the third set and kept cutting an angry figure, destroying another racket after missing on the internet.
Djokovic will have a second chance to add to the 2008 Olympic bronze on Saturday, when he and Nina Stojanovic faced Australia Ashleigh Barty and John Peers in the third place mixed-doubles play-off.
Olympics Tokyo: Novak Djokovic lost a bronze medal match
