Novak Djokovic has played fewer games than any other man since 1990 during his run to the US Open semifinals. That is just one of the impressive stats that Stephanie Kovalchik from Tennis Australia’s Game Insight Group (GIG) has produced following his ‘win’ over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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The most ridiculous match chart of Day Nine has to go to Novak Djokovic. Even though Djokovic faced World No.11 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in his quarterfinal match, he still had a pre-match win probability of 92%. With that kind of edge, Djokovic could afford to lose a break in the first set and still have his win chances hardly falter.
When Tsonga appeared to have a knee injury at the end of the second, he soon retired and fans didn’t get a chance to see Djokovic carry out his probabilistic destiny.
This is Djokovic’s third incomplete match in the tournament, giving him an incomprehensibly easy path to the semifinals.
Djokovic has only played 84 games to get to this stage of the tournament. This is the fewest number of games any male semifinalist has played at the US Open since 1990. In fact, the next fewest games played to reach the semifinalist was Djokovic himself in his incredible 2011 campaign, when he needed just 112 games to reach the semifinal.
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