The Czech struggled to control the new balls in the seventh game of the opening set during a poor service game that featured a flurry of unforced errors. Djokovic pounced to break and closed out the set after 37 minutes, winning 12 of the last 14 points during that opening chapter.
Again, too many errors flowed from the Czech’s racquet early in the second and Djokovic, going for a record 25th Grand Slam title in Melbourne, broke for the second successive time.
When Djokovic took Lehecka’s serve again in the first game of the third thanks to a double fault, it looked like the match was done. But the world No.7 followed that up with his only poor service game of the night to allow his opponent to level.
The set stayed on serve until that tricky 10th game for Djokovic, and once he’d negotiated that test they were into a tiebreak.
-The shootout came to life during the fourth point as Djokovic produced his best tennis of the evening. He dug up a Lehecka overhead, took control of the point with some incredible anticipation and finished off with a backhand pass to move ahead 3-1.
Try as he did, Lehecka just couldn’t quite reel Djokovic in, and the multiple AO champion finished the task after two hours and 39 minutes.
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