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Djokovic powers into Roland Garros final

Xinhua, June 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic stormed into his 20th Grand Slam final with a 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 win over the French Open semifinal debutant Dominic Thiem on Friday.

The 29-year-old Serb, seeking his first Roland Garros title to complete a career slam, almost met no trouble from the outset, breaking the 22-year-old Thiem at the Austrian' s first serving game before breaking twice in the second set.

Thiem, however, roared back from the beginning of the third set to break Djokovic and take a 3-0 lead before the top seed reeled off five games in a row to deny the youngster' s effort.

Djokovic, who' s already won the year' s opening major at Melbourne, later better proved himself the kind of man with stern mind and steady performance, served out the match for his sixth straight slam final.

With Andy Murray seeing off defending champion Stan Wawrinka 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in the other semifinal, Djokovic will try his chances for the straight second year against the Scot.

If he takes the French title, the Serb would come out the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slams at the same time.

Just hours before his semifinal, Djokovic was fined 5500 U.S. dollars for flinging his racquet in the quarterfinals against Czech Thomas Berdych on Thursday when it nearly bounced at a linesman. Endit