{"id":143667,"date":"2025-09-14T23:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143667\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:41:12","slug":"did-novak-djokovic-wave-goodbye-to-fans-at-us-open-for-a-final-time-heres-boris-beckers-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143667\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Novak Djokovic wave goodbye to fans at US Open for a final time? Here&#8217;s Boris Becker&#8217;s view&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has given up on winning a 25th Grand Slam with Boris Becker suggesting he waved goodbye to US Open fans for a final time following his exit from this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Djokovic<\/a> has now gone two years without winning a major with his last Slam trophy coming at the 2023 US Open as Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have dominated the past 24 months with each winning four majors.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian lost in the semi-final of all four Grand Slams this year as he retired injured from his match against Alexander Zverev at the Australian Open before losing against Sinner at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, and Alcaraz at the US Open, which is a popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unibet.com.au\/betting\/sports\/filter\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tennis betting<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/novak-djokovics-full-press-conference-us-open-exit-addresses-future-gassing-out-fun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After his defeat to Alcaraz at Flushing Meadows<\/a>, the 24-time Grand Slam winner appeared to be emotional and took his time to wave to the crowd on Arthur Ashe Stadium, sending a heart signal before exiting.<\/p>\n<p>And the 38-year-old also acknowledged after the loss that he realistically can\u2019t keep up with the younger Alcaraz and Sinner in the best-of-five sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can do only as much as I can do. And yeah it will be very difficult for me in the future to overcome the hurdle of Sinner and Alcaraz in the best of five in the Grand Slams,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I have a better chance in best of three but best of five, it\u2019s tough. I\u2019m not giving up on Grand Slams in that regard. Having said that, I\u2019m going to continue fighting and trying to get to the finals and fight for another trophy at least. But it\u2019s going to be a very, very difficult task.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/significance-behind-remaining-atp-event-novak-djokovic-committed-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The significance behind the one remaining ATP event Novak Djokovic has committed to in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-described-michael-jordan-tennis-gravitational-pull-novak-djokovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz described as \u2018Michael Jordan\u2019 of tennis with \u2018gravitational pull\u2019 Novak Djokovic can\u2019t match<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fellow former world No 1 Becker believes Djokovic\u2019s comments suggest that he has accepted he can\u2019t win Grand Slams anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s playing against Sinner or Alcaraz, and he doesn\u2019t know yet how long his Grand Slam career will continue. So, for the first time, it was openly discussed that 2026 might be his last Grand Slam year,\u201d he said on the Becker-Petkovic podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe mentioned that he can still keep up with the best of three sets. That\u2019s true. But why is he playing tennis, to win Rome or Monte Carlo \u2026 or to achieve 25 Grand Slam victories? And I think it\u2019s the latter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I admit that I now believe that, due to his age and the strength of the young guns, he can\u2019t realistically do it anymore. What exactly does that mean? Does that mean that he\u2019ll stop at some point? Do you have any idea when that might be? Do you think he\u2019ll play a full Grand Slam year?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/novak-djokovic-confession-tennis-future-retirement-2028-olympics-indian-wells\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he wants to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics<\/a> as he is the defending champion after beating Alcaraz in the singles gold medal match at the 2024 Paris Games.<\/p>\n<p>Becker added: \u201cOn the other hand, he\u2019s still dreaming of the 2028 Olympics, where he wants to defend the gold medal for Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn three years, I personally find that unrealistic, but the US Open sounded a bit like a farewell to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former world No 1 Andrea Petkovic also believes Djokovic\u2019s farewell was more than just a normal goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I thought so too, and also when he left, he was on his way out, he stopped again, took off his bag again, and showed his heart to the audience again,\u201d the German commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic has given up on winning a 25th Grand Slam with Boris Becker suggesting he waved goodbye&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-143667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}