{"id":4982,"date":"2024-09-28T02:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2024-09-28T02:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T02:05:52","slug":"state-of-the-season-how-will-novak-djokovic-fare-in-the-final-months-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"State of the Season: How will Novak Djokovic fare in the final months of 2024?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"oc-c-article__summary\">Might the Serbian\u2019s autumn of \u201924 be his training block for \u201925?<\/p>\n<div class=\"oc-c-article__publish-info\">\n<h4>What\u2019s at Stake<\/h4>\n<p>At this stage of Novak Djokovic\u2019s career, nothing is\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0at stake for him. He hasn\u2019t merely matched tennis\u2019 great achievements,\u00a0he has created records that never existed\u2014for example, winning singles titles at each major at least three times. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that we marveled at a player winning a single major past the age of 30. To think that in 2023, the year Djokovic turned 36, he reached the finals of all four majors, winning three.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Djokovic hasn\u2019t won a single ATP tournament this year, the first time that\u2019s been the case in late September\u00a0since he was an 18-year-old in 2005. But at the Olympics, Djokovic earned a title that he deeply cherishes. Surely, one of the most powerful images of the 2024 tennis year was seeing the Serbian on his knees following his gold-medal victory over Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say,\u201d Djokovic said that day. \u201cI\u2019m still in shock, honestly<\/p>\n<div class=\"d3-l-grid--outer\">\n<div class=\"oc-c-article__body d3-l-grid--inner\">\n<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-8 body-parts-center\">\n<div class=\"oc-c-body-part oc-c-markdown-stories\">\n<p>All year, Djokovic had pointed himself towards the Olympics. But this was hardly a case of a champion methodically finding his best form. There were early-round losses at Indian Wells and Rome. At Roland Garros, in the wake of playing two straight five-setters,\u00a0Djokovic suffered a knee injury that required surgery. Remarkably, he was able to compete at Wimbledon, where, as things look now, his run to the finals was in large part a tune-up for the Olympics. Returning to Paris for the Summer Games, Djokovic \u00a0benefited from the two-out-of-three set format, and won six matches without dropping a set, including a victory over Rafael Nadal. The gold-medal mission accomplished, Djokovic next played at the US Open, where\u00a0his title defense ended in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just really a big struggle mentally for me to play these three matches here, because I wasn&#8217;t playing even close to my best,\u201d Djokovic said in New York, after taking a third-round loss to Alexei Popyrin. \u201cSo, you know, it&#8217;s not good to be in that kind of state where you feel okay physically, and of course you&#8217;re motivated because it&#8217;s a Grand Slam, but you just are not able to find your game. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game is falling apart, and I guess you have to accept that tournaments like this happen. Yeah, you could argue that it&#8217;s because of the Olympics, but I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t want to analyze that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"d3-l-grid--outer\">\n<div class=\"oc-c-article__body d3-l-grid--inner\">\n<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-8 body-parts-center\">\n<div class=\"oc-c-body-part oc-c-body-part--photo\">\n<div class=\"d3-o-media-object\">\n<figure class=\"d3-o-media-object__figure fa-image -ratio-16-9\"><picture class=\"d3-o-media-object__picture\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_1920\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_1920_2x\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 2x, https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_1920_3x\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 3x\" media=\"(min-width:1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_1024\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_1024_2x\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 2x, https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_1024_3x\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 3x\" media=\"(min-width:768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_768\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_768_2x\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 2x, https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_768_3x\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg 3x\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tennis.com\/image\/private\/t_16-9_768\/f_auto\/tenniscom-prd\/ierro2guuvvdwnpelj4m.jpg\" alt=\"Djokovic has now won at least one tour-level title a year every year since 2006\u2014that's NINETEEN years in a row.\" \/><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"d3-o-media-object__photo-caption\">\n<p class=\"caption\">Djokovic has now won at least one tour-level title a year every year since 2006\u2014that&#8217;s NINETEEN years in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\u00a9\u00a02024 RvS.Media\/Monika Majer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"d3-l-grid--outer\">\n<div class=\"oc-c-article__body d3-l-grid--inner\">\n<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-12 body-parts-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"d3-l-grid--outer\">\n<div class=\"oc-c-article__body d3-l-grid--inner\">\n<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-8 body-parts-center\">\n<div class=\"oc-c-body-part oc-c-markdown-stories\">\n<h4><strong>Motivation<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As the season nears its end, it\u2019s uncertain how Djokovic will most productively point himself. One plausible scenario would be for him not to compete at all this autumn, thoroughly rest and, soon enough, commence rigorous training in hopes of returning to Melbourne and winning a staggering 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Australian Open title.<\/p>\n<p>The more likely scenario\u00a0is that Djokovic will play the events he\u2019s required to enter\u2014all the while knowing that there\u2019s little pressure on him to win. Perhaps, as Wimbledon helped Djokovic prepare for the Olympics, the autumn of \u201924 will be the training block for \u201925.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Tournaments to Watch<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Djokovic is automatically entered in two ATP Masters 1000 events: Shanghai (October 2-13) and Paris (October 28-November 3). Perhaps he might also play Vienna or Basel, both of which take place October 19-27. He is currently ninth in the ATP Race to Turin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might the Serbian\u2019s autumn of \u201924 be his training block for \u201925? 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