Djokovic’s back in town

NOVAK Djokovic may not be firing on all cylinders, but the former world No.1 is safely through to the third round of the French Open.

The Serbian, seeded only 20 this year because of his recent spell for injury, will face Spanish 13th seed Roberto Bautista Agut after a straightsets win over Jaume Munar.

Munar may be ranked a lowly 155 in the world but he made Djokovic work for every point in some long and at times spectacular rallies.

Munar occasionally had Djokovic scrambling with his fearsome shot-making, but the 2016 champion was able to post a 7-6 (7-1), 6-4, 6-4 win.

“I went through my ups and downs and I’m not really satisfied with the performance. I just played enough in the right moments to win the match,” Djokovic said.

“I have good days of serving when everything flows. But the issue is that I had to [change] the service motion a lot because of the injury [and] I changed the racquet.

“I’ve already had three different service motions this year. So it’s something that I’m working on.”

While it was obvious his game is still a long way from the form he produced to win four slams in a row in 2015-16, Djokovic was quick to put his struggles into perspective.

“To sit here and talk about how tough it is and you have people starving to death, for me there is no point in talking about that,” he said. “It’s just the way it is.”

Meanwhile, Marco Trungelliti’s epic French Open journey came to an end in the second round.

The Argentinian became the unlikely darling of Roland Garros after driving for 10 hours from Barcelona to Paris, with his brother, mother and grandmother on Sunday to register in time as a lucky loser. Trungelliti, the world No.190, then stunned the tennis world by beating Australia’s former top-20 player Bernard Tomic to net himself a $90,000 cheque.

But the 28-year-old hit the skids yesterday as he was beaten 6-1, 7-6 (7-1), 6-1 by Italian Marco Cecchinato.