Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic He did not fail on his return to the ATP circuit after certifying his qualification for the quarter-finals on Thursday. Final of the Tel-Aviv tournament, imposing himself for a clear 6-0 and 6-3 to Spaniard Pablo Andújar.

Djokovic, who apart from 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 July last, didn’t give the Spaniards the slightest option 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 set 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 gamewhen Novak 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 serve to win the second set (6-3) and secure a place in the quarter-finals of the Tel Aviv tournament in which Novak Djokovic with the Canadian Vaek Pospisilwho beat Israeli Edan Leshem 6-3 and 6-2 on Thursday.