A thirty-three year old athlete from Serbia settled on the leading step in the world classification. The season is very impactful for a Balkan. Novak suffered only three losses in the campaign: twice on hard and one on clay court. At the same time, Djokovic has eleven victories on glue and twenty-seven on fast surfaces. A year ago, Novak reached the semifinals. The Serb started with a confident win over the Swede Mikael Ymer in three sets.
For 38 rounds of the past season, Valladolid managed to get nine wins and 15 matches ended in a draw, which brought the team 42 points and 13-th final place in the standings. Pusela played well in defense, but failed the attack line, which was able to score only 32 goals, which is less than one goal per match. In a short summer break, center-forward Sean Weissman from Wolfsberg joined the team for four million euros and center-back Xavi Sanchez from Real Madrid (3 million). Sergio’s wards started the new La Liga tournament with a defeat and two world ones with Real Sociedad (1:1) and Celta (1:1). There are seven players in the team’s infirmary, including Alcaraz, Kiko, Moiano, Fernandez and Gassama. Masip has a coronavirus.
