One of my best: Novak Djokovic ecstatic after winning start in Monte Carlo Masters

Novak Djokovic was delighted after he made an impressive start to the clay season. After a first round bye, the 24-time Grand Slam singles champion beat Russia’s Roman Safiullin in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters. Djokovic won the match 6-1, 6-2 and made his way through to Round 3 where he will face Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti.

Djokovic earned 19 break point chances and converted 5 of them. The veteran did not give Safiullin a single chance of breaking his serve and that showed how dominating he was. Djokovic had no hesitation in saying that the match against Safiullin was one of his best.

"My feeling was great. I think it's an accurate judgment from the people that it's been one of the best performances I had here in quite a few years," Djokovic told the reporters.

‘Just the beginning’

Djokovic did not have a memorable outing last time around in Monte Carlo. After beating Ivan Gakhov in straight sets, he lost to Musetti 6-4, 5-7, 4-6 in the Round of 16. Djokovic said that his focus will be to show some consistency.

"Monte-Carlo is the first big tournament of the clay court season. You know, I haven't been really able the last six, seven years to start off strong and start off well. I've always kind of struggled in this tournament,” Djokovic said.

"But again, it's just the beginning of the tournament. It's one match. I'm going to hope to work tomorrow to maintain that rhythm and focus, obviously try to perform as well as I did in the second match as well as I did today," Djokovic added.

Djokovic recently became the oldest World No.1 after he went past Roger Federer’s record. The seasoned campaigner recently completed 420 weeks on top of the ATP rankings. He won the US Open last year and has held on to the rankings.