{"id":28391,"date":"2025-04-09T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/monte-carlo-masters-novak-djokovic-beaten-as-wait-for-100th-title-continues\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:23:18","slug":"monte-carlo-masters-novak-djokovic-beaten-as-wait-for-100th-title-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/monte-carlo-masters-novak-djokovic-beaten-as-wait-for-100th-title-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Carlo Masters: Novak Djokovic beaten as wait for 100th title continues"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Novak Djokovic’s wait for a 100th ATP singles title continues after he exited the Monte Carlo Masters in a “horrible” straight-set opening loss to Alejandro Tabilo.<\/b><\/p>\n

Djokovic, a two-time winner of the event, made 29 unforced errors compared to his 18 winners in a subdued start to the 37-year-old’s clay-court season, resulting in a 6-3 6-4 defeat.<\/p>\n

The record 24-time men’s major champion had won the last 10 matches he had contested on clay – including his run to Olympic gold<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

But Chilean Tabilo, who beat Djokovic on the surface at the Italian Open 11 months ago, replicated that surprise victory to reach the third round.<\/p>\n

“I expected myself at least to have put in a decent performance. Not like this, it was horrible,” Serbia’s Djokovic said.<\/p>\n

“I did not have high expectations. I knew I’m going to have a tough opponent and I knew I’m going to probably play pretty bad. But this bad, I didn’t expect.<\/p>\n

“I was hoping it was not going to happen, but it was quite a high probability I’m going to play this way. <\/p>\n

“A horrible feeling to play this way, just sorry for all the people that have to witness this.”<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, Carlos Alcaraz rallied to a comeback victory over Francisco Cerundolo in the 21-year-old’s first clay match of the season.<\/p>\n

Spanish world number three Alcaraz was unable to match Argentine Cerundolo in the first set but dominated thereafter, winning 12 of the last 13 games for a 3-6 6-0 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n

Norwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud beat Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2 6-1 to reach the third round, while Russian seventh seed Andrey Rublev overcame Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-4 7-6 (7-2).<\/p>\n

Great Britain’s Jack Draper is back in action on Thursday, when the Indian Wells champion faces Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina for a quarter-final place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Novak Djokovic’s wait for a 100th ATP singles title continues after he exited the Monte Carlo Masters in a “horrible” straight-set opening loss to Alejandro Tabilo. Djokovic, a two-time winner of the event, made 29 unforced errors compared to his 18 winners in a subdued start to the 37-year-old’s clay-court season, resulting in a 6-3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28393,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391\/revisions\/28393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}