It was quite an eventful day for the tennis ace Novak Djokovic as he advanced to the fourth round of the French Open 2018. He defeated g Roberto Bautista Agut by 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-2 at the Rolan Garros. The Serbian put up a fight in the tiebreaker and seemed to be quite angry after he lost a point in the second set. Djoko vented out his anger on his tennis racket and smashed it into the clay.

The 31-year-old regain his "It was a great fight, almost four hours," Djokovic said of his win. "Bautista Agut, he's not going to hand you the win. You have to deserve it. You know, for me, not having so many matches in the last period, this is great. I mean, of course I don't want to play four, five hours every match, but I think it was a great test. I had to earn my victory,” said Djoko.

“I was a bit unlucky not to capitalize on the second set. Maybe the match would be shorter, but at the same time, credit to him. I mean, he was better player in the third set, for example, and it was supposed to go his way ... he was serving for it. But that was a turning point,” said the Serbian.

He was not proud of the incident. “At times in my career, these kind of situations, when I would scream or throw a racquet, it would kind of wake me up and help me to just kind of free myself from that pressure that is just building throughout the match, but there are times when it doesn't help. So it's really hard to say what's the right thing to do. I’m not proud of doing that, to be honest. I don't like doing that. But at times, it happens,” he said to the reporters.

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