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<\/p>\nNovak Djokovic secured a hard-fought victory at Indian Wells on Saturday, overcoming a shaky start to defeat Kamil Majchrzak in three sets.<\/p>\n
The Serbian third seed found himself a double break down and lost the opening set 6-4, raising concerns of another early exit at a tournament where he has struggled in recent years.<\/p>\n
However, the 38-year-old demonstrated his trademark resilience, storming back to claim the second and third sets 6-1 and 6-2.<\/p>\n
The match marked Djokovic’s return to competitive action following his defeat to Carlos Alcaraz in the Australian Open final five weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic survived an Indian Wells scare this weekend<\/p>\n
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Following his comeback triumph, Djokovic addressed questions about his long-term future in the sport.<\/p>\n
The world number three confirmed his ambition to compete at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, when he will be 41 years of age.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, it would be nice. That’s one of the long-term goals, let’s call it, a way to reach the Olympics. That would be nice. I mentioned it a couple of times in the last year or so,” Djokovic said.<\/p>\n
He acknowledged the difficulty of such an undertaking at his stage of career.<\/p>\n
“You know, it’s still a long way. I think at my age and my stage of my career, every year seems like, you know, longer period than for anyone else who is younger.<\/p>\n
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Novak Djokovic is heavily motivated to take part in the 2028 Olympics<\/p>\n
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“But I’ll try to make it, definitely one of the motivations, so try to be there.”<\/p>\n
Djokovic was candid about his ongoing difficulties at the Californian desert venue.<\/p>\n
“Well, it was very challenging, as it is lately for me in Indian Wells, to be honest. It’s kind of hard to find my A-game, particularly at the beginning of the tournament in the last seven, eight years of coming here, so just glad to overcome a challenge,” he explained courtside.<\/p>\n
The Serbian veteran highlighted the testing weather conditions as a significant factor.<\/p>\n
“I find that the wind here is one of the toughest on the tour, just on a day like this, with the gusts of wind coming in and out, changing directions, it’s so, so difficult.”<\/p>\n
Djokovic’s career achievements place him among the greatest players in tennis history.<\/p>\n
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Novak Djokovic already is regarded as possibly the best tennis player of all time<\/p>\n
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The Serbian has accumulated 24 Grand Slam titles, more than any other male player, whilst also holding the record for the most weeks ranked as world number one.<\/p>\n
His Olympic gold medal, secured in Paris two years ago, completed a remarkable collection of honours that includes countless ATP Tour victories.<\/p>\n
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The five-time Indian Wells champion last lifted the trophy at this event in 2016, and has failed to progress beyond the quarter-finals since that triumph.<\/p>\n
Djokovic will face American Aleksandar Kovacevic in the third round as he pursues a sixth title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic secured a hard-fought victory at Indian Wells on Saturday, overcoming a shaky start to defeat Kamil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6766,2331,217,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-464913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sgg","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}