Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic did not miss his return to the circuit of the ATP after having certified this Thursday his classification for the quarter-finals of the Tel Aviv tournament, by winning by a faultless 6-0 and 6-3 against the Spaniards Pablo Andujar. Djokovic, who except for the matches he played against American Frances Tiafoe and Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in the Laver Cup, had not played in a tournament since winning his seventh Wimbledon title in last July, did not give the slightest option. to the Spaniard in the first set. As evidenced by the resounding 6-0 by which the Serbian, number 7 in the world ranking, won in the first set, in which Djokovic broke the Spaniard’s serve up to three times.

A scenario that seemed to repeat itself in the second round when the player from Belgrade had a new break point in the first game on the service of Pablo Andújar. But the tennis player from Cuenca, who this year counts as his best result the final he reached last July at the tournament in Iasi (Romania), clung to the court like never before and not only with the exception of that breakable ball, but four others, to stay alive (1-1) in the second round. A tie that Andújar, world number 115, managed to maintain until the eighth game, when Noval Djokovic did not miss another break point to break the Spanish player’s serve and take a 5-3 lead. Difference that the Balkan consolidated with his service to win the second set (6-3) and secure a place in the quarterfinals of the Tel Aviv tournament in which Novak Djokovic with the Canadian Vaek Pospisil, who this Thursday beat the Israeli Edan Leshem 6- 3 and 6-2.