Wimbledon 2023 results: Novak Djokovic overcomes rain delay to beat Pedro Cachin

The players were disconnected tribunal for astir 80 minutes with Novak Djokovic helping to adust the court

Novak Djokovic dried the tribunal with his towel and urged the assemblage to "blow" successful a farcical rainfall hold arsenic his Wimbledon rubric defence began with a win.

But aft the archetypal acceptable determination was nary play for 80 minutes, contempt the closed roof, with Djokovic dabbing the writer earlier crushed unit utilized leafage blowers.

When play resumed, the Serb broke Cachin's service doubly successful the 2nd acceptable and won the tie-break successful the third.

Djokovic, aiming to unafraid his eighth Wimbledon rubric and lucifer Roger Federer's grounds for a antheral player, volition present play American Brandon Nakashima, 55th successful the world, pursuing his five-set triumph implicit Australia's Jordan Thompson, ranked 70th.

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