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| Tennis - ATP 500 - Dubai Tennis Championships - The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - February 24, 2022 Serbia's Novak Djokovic looks dejected after he loses his quarter final match against Czech Republic's Jiri Vesely REUTERS/Suhaib Salem |
Novak Djokovic was deposed as world number one by Daniil Medvedev on Thursday after being knocked out of the Dubai ATP tournament by Czech qualifier Jiri Vesely.
Djokovic, who was playing in his first tournament of 2022
after being deported from Australia, lost 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) in his quarter-final
tie.
US Open champion Medvedev, currently involved in the
Acapulco tournament, becomes the third Russian man after Yevgeny Kafelnikov and
Marat Safin to ascend to the world number one spot.
Vesely, ranked 123 in the world and who had already defeated
Djokovic at Monte Carlo in 2016, will face either Canadian sixth seed Denis
Shapovalov or Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania for a place in the final.
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