You can find plenty of explanations from Novak Djokovic’s rivals for why he is so successful, including why he will start his quest for a fifth consecutive and eighth overall Wimbledon title on Monday and why he will try to win an Open era-record 24th Grand Slam trophy over the next two weeks on the grass courts at the All England Club.
His game-winning serve return. His lethal backhand with two hands. His flexibility. His endurance. In his favour. Casper Ruud said this after losing to Djokovic in the French Open final: “He sort of just enters into this mindset where he simply reads people’s intentions, gets to where a ball is coming and sends it back with power.
If you ask Novak Djokovic why he has done what he has done and why, at the age of 36, he is still doing it, he will likely give you a response that is much less obvious and more abstract, such as what he stated in his victory speech at Roland Garros a few weeks ago.
“I strive to see everything in my life and feel it with every cell in my body, not just believe it. And I just want to convey to all young people the following message: “Be in the present moment; forget about what happened in the past; the future is simply going to happen,” stated Djokovic. “However, you must create a better future if you desire one. Take the tools in your possession..Recognise it.Make it.”
Djokovic mentioned two main objectives while discussing his ambitions and desires as a 7-year-old boy that day: becoming the No. 1 player and winning Wimbledon.
More men than women have held the top spot over the first 50 years of computerised rankings than he has already. He will now strive to catch Roger Federer by winning the eighth championship in the oldest of the four Grand Slam tennis competitions. With 23, Djokovic has won one more singles major than the ailing Rafael Nadal and three more than the retiring Roger Federer.
Pedro Cachin of Argentina will be Djokovic’s opponent at Centre Court on Monday. “Those two guys,” Djokovic added, “were occupying my mind for the last 15 years rather a lot.”
Serena Williams concluded her career last season with 23, and only Margaret Court had more wins spanning both the amateur and professional eras with 24.
The aim is to score Grand Slams. The tennis player’s coach, Goran Ivanisevic, said: “I don’t know how many, but I assume he has a lot more in his body. “It’s amazing to see because sometimes you think, ‘OK, now you have 23.’ But he’ll once more find inspiration to take 24, maybe 25. Who knows where the end will be?
The so-called Big Three’s Slam rankings at the beginning of the 2011 season were Federer with 16, Nadal with 9, and Djokovic with one.
Having captured his first major championship at the 2008 Australian Open,
Four of Djokovic’s 11 losses during this period were against Federer or Nadal in semifinals or championship games.
His self-assurance started to dwindle.
You may travel a long way but still fail at the last obstacle, so Djokovic admitted there was where he had serious self-doubt. You know what I mean when I say, “The more times you kind of fall, the more you question everything?”
But despite this, Djokovic persevered off the court to find ways to advance. His first-round opponent in Paris, Aleksandar Kovacevic, described him as having “unbelievably strong mental fortitude.” And he still does it, which is part of the reason why most people consider him to be the favourite rather than No. 1 seed Carlos Alcaraz as Djokovic works to complete the first male calendar-year Grand Slam since Rod Laver in 1969.
He has been quite open about what he wants to do, which is aiming to break the Grand Slam record. This is something that you have to admire about him. He delivered when he put himself in a position to do so, according to Andy.At Wimbledon, Murray won two of his three major championships. “He didn’t appear to be becoming anxious, overanalyzing the situation, or doing any of those things. Yes, he actually did it. It demonstrates his courage of character.
So whence did this notion originate?
Djokovic cites a number of factors, including his upbringing in Serbia during the 1990s, when there was war and an embargo (“95+% of people… were laughing at them, and were discouraging them to spend whatever is left over from the family budget into such an expensive sport,” he said), his parents, his first coach and “tennis mother,” Jelena Gencic, and a later coach and “tennis father,” Niki Pilic.
He grew as a person and an athlete thanks to everyone.
Djokovic claimed that Gencic used to show him videos of the top male and female tennis players when he was 7 or 8 years old. She also imparted to him the value of reading poetry, breathing deliberately, singing, and relaxing with classical music.such that.”
He claimed that his father “instilled in me such power of belief and positive thinking” and that his mother “is a rock.”
