Djokovic battles past rain, emotions and Dolgopolov to get the job done in three tight sets 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 in an hour and 40 minutes. With 19 winners and 3 breaks Djokovic won this evenly matches clash to progress to the next round here. A rather weak Djokovic one must after he was going through really strong emotions, it was visible through the stats. Djokovic prevails!

Here comes the break! The World No. 1 brings in all his experience on the forefront and gets a breakthrough here.  Djokovic smacks two quick backhand winners to put pressure on  A Dolgopolov, who commits an ill-timed unforced error to gift away the break to the World No. 1  Djokovic.