Ageless Federer Brushes Off Cilic

Djokovic Breezes Past Cuevas

- ​​​​​​​Prajwal Hegde

Novak Djokovic’s court cover-age is elastic; he sprints, he stretches, he slides. His alacrity shrinks the acreage. On Thursday, it was the elegant setting of the court Suzanne Lenglen that he contracted, in the process making light the second-round challenge of Pablo Cuevas.

The top-seeded Djokovic put out the 35-year-old Uruguayan — a clay court artist, armed with a flowing single-handed backhand punctuating the two-hour 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory with an ace.

Djokovic appeared to have more of a problem with a section of the crowd than he did with the man standing across the net. The 34-year-old complained to the chair umpire in the third set, pointing at a spectator, who appeared to be heckling him.