{"id":107903,"date":"2025-08-30T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/107903\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:23:11","slug":"a-shot-at-another-slam-novak-djokovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/107903\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA shot at another Slam\u201d: Novak Djokovic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mantra is a familiar one. Novak Djokovic<\/a> is relentless. After winning his third-round match<\/a> at the US Open, he once again spoke of his desire to push on and challenge for more Grand Slam titles. But his words were also laced with the same philosophical introspection he\u2019s shown throughout a challenging 2025 season, on his deep will to continue the sacrifices for glory.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Serb finds himself at a familiar crossroads. The drive is there, the passion is palpable, but so is the physical wear and tear that has become a recurring theme this year. \u201cYou know, biological age is not something that I guess you can reverse\u201d, he had to admit after a small alert on the left back during the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still feel like I have a game left in me, you know to play at the highest level,\u201d Djokovic said after his win over Cameron Norrie<\/a>. \u201cAnd as I said before several times, as long as I have that feeling of really that that that level is still alive, is still present. I feel like I want to keep going and I want to keep pushing my myself to, to see, you know, whether I can have a shot at another slam.\u201d He\u2019s currently at the fourth round in New York, where he will face Jan-Lennard Struff.<\/p>\n

\"\"Novak Djokovic, US Open 2025 \u2013 \u00a9 Antoine Couvercelle<\/p>\n

Despite the physical setbacks, Djokovic remains committed to his craft and his career<\/p>\n

This sentiment is the core of Djokovic\u2019s 2025 campaign. He\u2019s reached the semifinals of every major so far this year, but a series of physical issues have prevented him from going further.<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s journey in 2025 has been a testament to his fighting spirit, but it has also been a stark reminder of his mortality. After the Australian Open semifinals, he was forced to retire against Alexander Zverev with a muscle tear, a first for him in a Grand Slam. This was followed by a straight-sets loss to Jannik Sinner in the semifinals of Roland Garros, a match he said \u201ccould have been the last match ever I played here, so\u2026 I don\u2019t know.\u201d Despite the loss, he was proud of his effort and praised the crowd.<\/p>\n

At Wimbledon, his struggles continued. After a fall during his quarterfinal win over Flavio Cobolli, he was not at his best physically in the semifinals against Jannik Sinner, losing in straight sets. \u201cHonestly, it wasn\u2019t really a pleasant feeling on the court,\u201d he said. \u201cAs much as I\u2019m taking care of it, the reality hits me right now, the last year and a half, like never before, to be honest.\u201d He admitted that he was going into the match with his \u201ctank half empty.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Despite the physical setbacks, he remains committed to his craft and his career. At Wimbledon, he insisted that his loss was not a farewell, stating, \u201cI\u2019m not planning to finish my Wimbledon career today. I\u2019m planning to come back definitely \u2013 at least one more time.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 38, Djokovic is fully aware of the conversations happening in his mind and in the world around him. He\u2019s been asked repeatedly about retirement and his future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I\u2019m asking myself questions, of course, more nowadays than I have been ever before in terms of, like : how long do I want to keep going at this level? And how do I want to approach my schedule to kind of extend my career?\u201d he said in New York after skipping all the Masters 1000 since Rome in May.<\/p>\n

Djokovic is a master at taking care of his body<\/p>\n

He insists his love for the game and the competition is still there, but he also acknowledges the difficulty of dealing with a body that no longer responds as it once did. It is a new reality that he must accept and embrace, while trying to \u201cmake the most out of what I have left.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the first one to try it out because I really I not only want to be able to extend my career and perform well at this stage for as long as I can, but also I love the wellness and longevity\u201d, he said. \u201cI just am very attracted by that, like it\u2019s one of my biggest passions in life. So I always, I always love to see how not only how sick can we be, but how healthy can we be. You know, like prevention. I\u2019ve worked a lot on that, but I don\u2019t think there is much more that I could do than what I\u2019m doing now, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI might get a little bit more philosophical again when I finish the tournament,\u201d he concluded. \u201cBut (in between), I\u2019ll try to focus on next challenge here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mantra is a familiar one. Novak Djokovic is relentless. After winning his third-round match at the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-107903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}