Novak Djokovic begins the defense of his title Open the Australia already on the first day of competition. He ten times winner and current champion starts in practice, because until now he has played ‘preliminaries’, a season in which he can achieve two of the few achievements that he still lacks. One, cwin the Grand Slam, from which they have been one win away on three occasions – and on one occasion they only missed the last game -. The other, the Olympic title. Their union would give rise to Golden Slam, an achievement that until now only Steffi has achieved Graf36 years ago.
That path begins with today’s clash against Croatian Dino Prismatic. Obviously, the Serbian is a unanimous favorite. He is he number 1 in the world and his rival a young man 18 years who is making his first tennis weapons and who has participated in the previous phase as 178 ATP, He has, however, details to consider: his youth identifies a tennis player in progress, in such a way that each match against him can be a surprise, and he has great quality: in 2023 he was proclaimed Roland Garros junior champion. Given his youth, his career is necessarily brief. Last year he still alternated the ITF and Challenger circuits, but won no less than five titles of the first and the Challenger ATP de Banja Luka. Be careful: he beat Jiri in the Stockholm tournament Play hedge, 30 ATP. His childhood idol was… Djokovic.
But of course: He will now have Novak in front of him Djokovicand Novak Djokovic is Novak Djokovic: a tennis player who can fairly aspire to the position of best tensita of all time, If such a thing existed, who has won 24 Grand Slam titles and, of them, 10 at the Australian Open. In fact he hasn’t lost in Melbourne since 2018 because when Nadal won in 2022 he was not present because of his refusal to get vaccinated against him COVIDa necessary condition to enter Australia.
In recent weeks his physique has raised some doubts, especially the state of his dollstarting from his Unted Cup loss to Alex from Miñaur. But upon arriving in Melbourne he declared that he was in perfect condition. It will be a great touchstone for Prismatic in his debut in the final draw of the Australian Open.
2024-01-14 10:49:28
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