Novak Djokovic devastates Ryan Harrison in the second round – Western & Southern Open 2011
Serbian dominance kept prevailing at Cincinnati, as the world number one, Novak Djokovic, blasted his way past the local wildcard entrant, Ryan Harrison, in the second round of Western and Southern Financial Group Masters, on Wednesday
afternoon.
Djokovic registered his 54th victory of the running ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) season by disposing of Harrison in straight sets 6-2, 6-3, to qualify for the round of 16 of the Master Series event. The
contest was staged on outdoor hard courts at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, near Cincinnati, United States, with 19-year-old local boy failing to withstand the fury of the world number one.
The top seed Djokovic is now 30-0 on hard courts and it surging for his 10th championship title at Cincinnati. The Serb displayed his belligerence yet another time, giving away no chance to Harrison to get his impact
over the game. The American hung in the contest for just one hour and seventeen minutes and won just five games in the entire matchup to finish on the losing side in the end.
The top seed was off to a sloppy start in the opening set and dropped serve in the very first game and then again in the fifth game of the match but he recovered with great mastery to turn the tables on his opponent.
“It was a slow start, not a good start. I wasn’t serving so great today but I think everything else was quite good,” told the top seeded Serb in his post match reviews. “From the baseline I wasn’t making a lot of unforced errors.
I was returning a lot of balls in and played quite good really for the opening match.”
Djokovic’s first serve break of the day came in the very second game of the matchup to bring Harrison down on even terms, followed by a series of serve breaks. A second straight break point conversion from the Serb put him in 3-1
lead but Harrison nailed another serve break to curtail the deficit to 2-3. The Serb pushed forward at his opponent and stung two more consecutive break points to close out the set at 6-2.
Djokovic broke early again in the second set to lead 3-0 and then held lead all the way till the conclusion of the matchup at 6-3. He will now take on the Czech qualifier, Radek Stepanek, in the next round to get a berth in his
11th quarter-final of the running year.
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