LIVE: Unbelievable Djokovic match point stat

An outrageous statistic has highlighted Novak Djokovic's nerves of alloy aft helium won the Adelaide International rubric connected Sunday night.

The Serbian superstar fought disconnected lucifer and title constituent astatine 5-6 down successful the 2nd acceptable of his 6-7 (8), 7-6 (3), 6-4 triumph implicit unseeded American Sebastian Korda.

According to tennis pundit Bastien Fachan, it was the 48th lucifer constituent saved successful Djokovic's illustrious career, dating backmost to 2005 erstwhile helium saved six against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

Djokovic was afloat stretched by the 22-year-old Korda, lad of 1998 Australian Open champion Petr Korda.

Djokovic held service to emotion successful his archetypal 4 work games of the last acceptable and past held service aft being taken to deuce by Korda successful his 5th work game.

Djokovic past rallied from 15-40 down astatine 5-4 successful Korda's adjacent work crippled to triumph 4 consecutive points and instrumentality the match.

"I anticipation everyone enjoyed the amusement tonight, it's been an astonishing week," Djokovic said.

"Seb's had an astonishing tourney and enactment successful an astonishing effort today.

"I deliberation helium was person to triumph astatine times contiguous than I was. It was lone a mates of shots, a mates of points."

Djokovic astatine times showed irritation with his manager Goran Ivanisevic who supported him from a courtside container oregon remonstrated with himself aft a wasted point.

"I'd similar to convey my squad for handling me, tolerating maine successful the bully and atrocious times today. I'm definite they didn't person specified a blast with maine going backmost and distant with them but I admit them being here."

His service was reliable astatine the commencement of the archetypal acceptable and helium didn't concede a constituent connected archetypal service until Korda broke him to pb 5-4.

Djokovic instantly broke backmost and took the acceptable to a tiebreaker.

Korda had an aboriginal pb and 5 acceptable points but Djokovic saved them each and levelled the tiebreaker astatine 6-6.

Djokovic framed a forehand that sailed into the assemblage and gave Korda different advantage, allowing the American to instrumentality the tiebreaker 10-8.

Djokovic saved a lucifer constituent astatine 5-6 connected service successful the 2nd set, past forced the acceptable into different tiebreaker that helium took comfortably.

Korda produced immoderate outstanding work games and troubled Djokovic astatine times with the footwear of his serve.

But helium was breached for lone the 2nd clip successful the lucifer successful the 10th crippled of the deciding set, with lone a mates of points making the difference.