Novak Djokovic advances to Adelaide final despite leg injury

Novak Djokovic beat Daniil Medvedev 63 64 on Saturday to advance to the Adelaide International final despite sustaining a leg injury during the matchIn the seventh game of the first set Djokovic caught his left foot when sliding for a ball and immediately began stretching out his hamstring He took a medical timeoutThankfully it was nothing too serious Djokovic said later adding he went off court to take some antiinflammatories Hopefully tomorrow it will be all fineDjokovic will play Sebastian Korda in Sundays finalThe win was Djokovics 33rd in a row in Australia since his shock 2018 loss to Hyeon Chung in the Australian Open quarterfinals that year He did not play last year when he was deported from Australia for not being vaccinated for COVID19Korda advanced to the final after Yoshihito Nishioka retired hurt midway through their semifinalKorda broke Nishiokas serve in the opening game of the second set and the Japanese lefthander called a medical timeout for treatment on an apparent leg injuryAlso readNovak Djokovic Denis Shapovalov to meet in Adelaide quarterfinalsNishioka returned to play a few more points before retiring midgame with Korda leading 76 5 10Teenage qualifier Linda Noskova advanced to the womens singles final after beating topseeded Ons JabeurJabeur a twotime Grand Slam singles finalist last year needed a medical timeout for treatment on her back during the opening set and the world No 2ranked player looked restricted at times on the way to a 63 16 63 defeat on SaturdayNoskova an 18yearold Czech ranked 102 will take on world No 5 Aryna Sabalenka in Sundays final Sabalenka earlier advanced with a 63 62 win over IrinaCamelia BeguNoskova has won six consecutive matches in only her sixth appearance in the main draw of a WTA event She had to save match points during qualifying to make it to the main drawSabalenka had five doublefaults but finished the match with her sixth ace She won more than 8037 of her points on her first serve and controlled the match from the baseline She hasnt dropped a set this tournamentIm happy with the level I played Sabalenka said Shes playing a little bit different style so Im super happy that I was able to win this matchThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever