By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Monday, February 10, 2025
Photograph credit score: Clive Brunskill/Getty
A leg muscle tear ended Novak Djokovic‘s Australian Open quest.
It hasn’t damage his starvation for historical past.
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Grand Slam king Djokovic experiences he’s almost “one hundred pc healed” from the muscle tear in his left leg that compelled his retirement from final month’s Australian Open semifinals.
Now, Djokovic goals to attain historical past in Doha subsequent week by capturing his one centesimal profession championship.
In a brand new interview with newspaper Vijesti, Djokovic delivered his mission assertion: “I hope that my one centesimal Practically Absolutely Match, Djokovic Units Sights On Doha Milestone trophy can are available Doha.”
“I’ve the inexperienced gentle from the medical staff to have the ability to practice, to have the ability to put together,” Djokovic instructed Vijesti. “The match in Doha is scheduled for per week now, so I’m sticking to the schedule.
“Thank God, I managed to get well rapidly. “I’ve had a number of extra accidents these days than I did within the first 15 years of my profession. That most likely comes with age, however my physique nonetheless listens to me, the flame and need for achievement and new achievements nonetheless burns in me.”
The 37-year-old Serbian famous person received back-to-back Doha titles in 2016 and 2017.
A well-liked presence within the Center East, Djokovic is taking part in for his one centesimal profession crown and first championship since he out-dueled Carlos Alcaraz in a dramatic Olympic remaining to assert his maiden Olympic gold medal for Serbia.
The 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic bowed to Alcaraz within the Wimbledon remaining final July then misplaced to Jannik Sinner within the Shanghai remaining in October.
Djokovic, who turns 38 on Might twenty second, stated he is pushed to achieve the century mark in Doha.
“I hope that the one centesimal trophy can come already in Doha, I have been chasing it for a very long time, since October final yr, however about that—it would come when it is supposed to come back,” Djokovic stated. “I do know it would come, we’ll see when and the place.”
Corridor of Famer Jimmy Connors holds the ATP Open Period report with 109 titles. Twenty-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer is second on the boys’s Open Period title checklist with 103 profession championships.
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