The “Djokosmash” is one of the most notorious shots on the ATP World Tour. But Novak Djokovic took the “Djokosmash” to a whole ‘nother level on Monday at the Mutua Madrid Open.
Serving at 7-5, 3-3, 30-15 during his first-round match against Kei Nishikori, the former world No. 1 approached the net for what should have been the simplest of overheads. Djokovic, however, is known for making a mess of that shot–and that is exactly what he did in this particularly circumstance. Instead of depositing it in the court and over the wall for an easy winner, the 30-year-old Serb dumped it straight down into the net.
the greatest Djokosmash of ALL TIME pic.twitter.com/AEblELgYJs
— Ricky Dimon (@Dimonator) May 7, 2018
"Você que joga tênis no fim de semana e não se perdoa por errar um smash decisivo, olha o que fez Novak Djokovic" pic.twitter.com/woN9JpgIDL
— ge (@geglobo) May 7, 2018
Djokovic ended up winning 7-5, 6-4.
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Hahaha
What’s incredible is how rarely this happens at the top levels. Even good club players do it pretty often; even whiffing completely on such a shot isn’t that uncommon.
Still, for an ATP player, that’s up there in terms of easy misses. You can tell Novak started to look down and took his eye off the ball.
Maybe he wanted to make sure he wasn’t going to touch the net?
It’s happened to me plenty of times…..Joker still looked pretty good in beating Kei.
Things happened sometimes….Unexplainable or otherwise…Good thing is,Novak didn’t lose his focus & won the match in the end…