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French Open 2021 Men’s Final, Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas Live Score: First ever all-Balkan GS final

French Open 2021 Men's Final, Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas Tennis Live Score Streaming Online: Novak Djokovic will next face a first-time Grand Slam finalist in Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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Updated: June 13, 2021 6:05:28 pm
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French Open 2021 Men’s Final, Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas Tennis Live Score Updates: Novak Djokovic will be up against a first-time Grand Slam finalist in Stefanos Tsitsipas as the world number one bids to become the first man in the open era to win all four majors at least twice.

Roy Emerson and Rod Laver are the only other players who have won each of the four Grand Slams on two or more occasions. However, no one has achieved the feat since 1968.

Further, a second French Open trophy, after his 2016 triumph, on Sunday will also give the 34-year-old Serbian his 19th Grand Slam title – one short of Nadal and Roger Federer’s men’s record.

His challenger will be 22-year-old Tsitsipas who is bidding to become the first Greek to win a singles major.

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French Open 2021 Final, Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas Live Score & Updates:

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Djokovic vs Tsitsipas

After dethroning ‘king of clay’ Rafa Nadal at the French Open, Novak Djokovic will next face a first-time Grand Slam finalist in Stefanos Tsitsipas as the world number one bids to become the first man in the open era to win all four majors at least twice. His challenger will be a 22-year-old who is bidding to become the first Greek to win a singles major. Tsitsipas has long been marked out as a future Grand Slam champion and has already collected trophies from the season-ending ATP Finals and a Masters 1000 tournament. But he had drawn a blank the three times he reached the last-four stage at a major before Friday’s semi-final.

With Croatia taking on England in their opening Euro 2020 fixture at the same time, we apologise beforehand for not giving the attention to this French Open final as it deserves.

 

Novak Djokovic is two wins away from becoming only the third male player in history to win all four Grand Slams twice.

But concerns remain over his fitness after he suffered neck and shoulder problems during his four-set quarter-final victory over Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta.

Djokovic defeated Tsitsipas in their only previous meeting on clay - the final of the 2019 Madrid Open.

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