At full speed and without opposition is how Novak Djokovic advances this year at Roland Garros. The current tournament champion and world number one beat Diego Schwartzman 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 in 2:15, and qualified for the quarterfinals for the 16th time (13th consecutive). His rival on Tuesday will be Rafa Nadal or Felix Auger-Aliassime. The Serbian already has 85 wins on the land of the French Grand Slam. The Argentine could do nothing to avoid his seventh loss in as many duels against Djokovic.
With magnificent sensations, Djokovic easily dominated a Schwartzman who made 45 unforced errors and he only gave the impression of being able to unsettle his rival when at the beginning of the second set he broke him and made it 3-0 in his favor. Nole put down his rebellion very forcefully, with a 6-0 run with which he scored the sleeve and took an insurmountable distance in the match.
The little He had had seven break options, but he only took advantage of one and in the third round he held his own until the sixth game.or, when a new break from the Balkan left him without an answer. Schwartzman remains this time at the gates of the quarterfinals that he reached last year and in 2020 when he was a semifinalist. Djokovic is at the peak of his clay campaign form, having won in Rome and made it through all four games played so far at the Bois de Boulogne.