MELBOURNE – Some musings from Day 5 in Melbourne.
• Paul Annacone and I discussed the Djokovic defeat on the latest SI/Tennis Channel tennis podcast:
• Here’s a video essay on Novak Djokovic.
Five points from today through the day session. Then, we’ll go right to the questions.
• The buzz today—not surprisingly—still focused around Djokovic and his defeat. But let’s dwell on Denis Istomin. The guy hit 63 winners against perhaps the best defensive player in history. At 5-4 in the fifth set, he had the service game of his life and…went five-for-five on first serves.