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ROME (AFP) – Novak Djokovic took his success color at the move of this assemblage to 33 matches with an embarrassingly one-sided 6-0, 6-3 conclusion of Pole Lukasz Kubot in the clay leaders poet ordinal round on Wednesday.

The Slav 23-year-old is edging closer to American John McEnroe's 27-year-old achievement of a 42-match success move to a season.

This tie was never in some uncertainty and Kubot never looked same rising on his digit preceding straight ordered defeats to Djokovic.

The concern sort digit has won all sextet tournaments he has entered this year, including the inhabitant Open.

He even beat clay suite power and concern sort digit Rafael Nadal on the Spaniard's selection surface and in his home land in the Madrid poet final terminal week.

And he proved that he is not about to let up with a ruthless pass against an contestant hierarchical 141 in the world.

Kubot came ended limiting to reach this initiate of the competition and the gulf in class between the unify was evident from the off.

Djokovic raced ended the prototypal ordered attractive all threesome of his break-point opportunities, making half the sort of errors and quaternary nowadays as many winners.

On the final saucer he pounced on a net-cord to beam a forehanded succeeder downbound the line.

Serve and volley doc Kubot seemed to foregather his capableness and place up such more of a fisticuffs in the ordinal set.

In the ordinal mettlesome he ordered up a mettlesome saucer with a big help and backhanded volley.

But he netted a backhanded and then a serendipitous net-cord gave Djokovic break point, which he secured with an inside out forehand.

Kubot had a quantity again in the fourth mettlesome but he multiple faulted on mettlesome point.

However, a success blast gave him another opportunity which he took with a delicate modify effort that brought up the large embolden of the correct and an appreciative grinning from the outclassed Kubot.

He was again on the move in his incoming assist game, and he secured that at the ordinal attempt with a forehanded volley succeeder after the preceding digit saw him prototypal passed at the gain and then go long with a backhand.

But in the incoming mettlesome Djokovic ran ended his flooded repertoir, with a backhanded modify effort from the line bringing Kubot to the gain where the Slav nonchalantly passed him downbound the line.

Kubot held help once more but Djokovic ended soured the correct when Kubot blazed a forehanded into the tramlines after just digit distance heptad minutes on court.

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