Wimbledon men's round-up: Djokovic stays on track despite service interruption

Serbian loses temper as he is broken twice by German qualifier Greul By Chris McGrath at Wimbledon Novak Djokovic recently appeared in a surreal television commercial alongside a pair of performing seals, all three of them balancing a Head racket on their noses, and perhaps suspected that seeing off Simon Greul here yesterday would prove a rather less challenging assignment. But while the world No 4 duly coasted past the German qualifier, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4, he did contrive to have his serve broken in the opening games of both the first and second sets. On the second occasion he furiously slammed his racket into the ground, earning sarcastic cooing from the Court One crowd. Suitably provoked, he got on a decisive roll through the second set, but did not really sustain the momentum and overall produced a rather fitful performance.... [read full story]                    

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