Djokovic dispels doubts before the Australian Open

Novak Djokovic will arrive at the 2023 Australian Open with more optimism if possible to seek his tenth title in Melbourne. In the training match that he played this Friday against Nick Kyrgios, and despite losing 4-3 (3), 2-4 and 10-9, ‘Nole’ draws numerous positive conclusions. The first of these is thatThe Serbian seems to have left behind the knee discomfort that forced him to abandon his training with Daniil Medvedev on Wednesday and that set off all the alarms. And another no less important conclusion is that Djokovic has once again endeared himself to the people of Australia despite his abrupt entry into the country last year and his deportation. that left him unable to compete in the tournament.

In a Rod Laver Laver packed to bursting and with an atmosphere more typical of a match in the final rounds of the Australian Open than of a training session, Kyrgios and Djokovic delighted the fans as well as contributing to a charitable cause, as the funds raised from ticket sales will go to the Tennis Australia Foundation.

During this match-format training session, a Djokovic who starred in a comical moment with Kyrgios when the Australian took his first serve of the match and did not follow up on the point before the Serb brought out his best tennis with exchanges of up to 38 shots, although Kyrgios took the first set of this peculiar training session 4-3 (5-3 in the tiebreaker).

A training session that also served to attest to the ‘bromance’ between Kyrgios and Djokovic after the last Wimbledon final and where The great harmony between Djokovic and the Australian public was demonstrated despite last year’s episode, with the Serb shaking hands with the fans in the middle of the game after the points and achieving points that only Djokovic is capable of reaching absolutely impossible balls to which Kyrgios forced him and which helped him to win this second set 4-2.

In the tie-break with which the third and final set was decided, the wheelchair tennis players David Wagner and Heath Davidson came into action, as well as two children who played the last points of a match that the Kyrgios team finally won by 4-3 (3), 2-4 and 10-9 who left us very funny moments and also a Djokovic who dispelled the doubts generated in recent days after abandoning his training with Medvedev and who will have the support of an Australian public at the Australian Open who, once again, fell in love with his feet.