{"id":408374,"date":"2026-01-14T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:47:12","slug":"australian-open-live-novak-djokovic-doubts-emerge-as-star-demands-new-rule-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408374\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open LIVE: Novak Djokovic doubts emerge as star demands new rule | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/novak-djokovic\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> has been told the chances of him winning another Grand Slam title are minimal.<\/p>\n<p>The Serb remains locked on 24 Slam victories, having last won a major tournament at the 2023 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic reached the semi-final of all four Grand Slams last year, but former Australian Open tournament director Paul McNamee believes he&#8217;s going to be stuck chasing number 25 for some time.<\/p>\n<p>McNamee told SEN: &#8220;Well, he made the semifinals of all four Slams last year, but was beaten badly in all four.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The year before he won the Olympics which was incredible, beating Alcaraz, but it was a three-set match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think backing up after five-set matches makes it very unlikely. To be honest, he needs the other two to lose somewhere, which could happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic has been told the chances of him winning another Grand Slam title are minimal. The Serb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[172054,6005,7641,171439,171438,49,48,619,3270,615,2083,82,593,621],"class_list":["post-408374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ao-news","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-australian-open","tag-australian-open-draw","tag-australian-open-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408374","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=408374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}