the serbian Novak Djokovic this Saturday he won the 1,000th victory of his career by beating the Norwegian Casper Ruud in the semifinals of Rome Masters 1,000 with which he certified his pass to the final of the tournament that he has already won five times.
Round day for ‘Nole’. A thousand wins in his career and the pass to the final of one of his favorite tournaments. In it he will seek his sixth crown in the Italian capital against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, who got off the German Alexader Zverev from the Foro Italico.
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Only Ruud stood between number 1 and a new personal record. He got rid of one of the revelations in two sets (6-4 and 6-3), as he has done in all his matches in this tournament so far, and becomes part of a select club of five tennis players .
Jimmy Conners (1,274 wins), Roger Federer (1,251), Ivan Lendl (1,068) and Rafael Nadal (1,051) were the only ones to hold that privilege. Now they will have a new member in the group, one who was looking forward to reaching the round number.
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“I saw Roger and Rafa and I was looking for him too. It’s been a while since I won the first match and I hope I can win more. Hopefully tomorrow”, declared the Serbian on the central court of the Foro Italico in which he received a cake with a number 1,000 signed on it.
“Thank you for the atmosphere tonight, beautiful and electric. If there were two places where I would have liked to celebrate my 1,000 victories, it would be Serbia and Rome”, added a ‘Nole’ who did not forget his team and family in recognition and who received the loudest ovation of the night.
“Thank you for your support this year, this victory is not possible without you,” he said.
