Novak Djokovic He qualified for the eleventh time for the semifinals of the Australian Open, a round to which the ten-time champion arrives undefeated. It will be his 48th appearance in a penultimate Grand Slam round.
At 36 years old, he is destroying most of the records in this sport, including those that seemed most unlikely due to their difficulty. He is one ‘big’ away from being the most successful in history, breaking the current balance with the Australian Margaret Court.
At the 2024 Australian Open he has already broken another record. She is the protagonist of the longest winning streak at Melbourne Park, in the men’s draw, with the 33rd consecutive victory she also caught up with the women’s record.
It is held by a woman who made history, but not all that she had on her racket because a fan of the German Steffi Grafhis rival, invaded the Hamburg track and stabbed Monica Seles. One of those indelible images in the annals of sports history, which shook the security systems of tennis events.
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Seles had 33 matches and was champion of the Australian Open from 1991 to 1993. Born in Serbia, she became an American citizen. She has a common sentimental trait with Novak Djokovic. She and he started with the same person in the tennis world, the coach Jelena Gencic.
“My tennis mother, as I like to call her. She passed away in 2012, she worked with Monica when she was young. So I heard a lot about Monica. Monica this, Monica that. Monica eats this, sleeps so much, trains this way. It was without one of my childhood idols, one of my heroes. I admired her a lot,” he said. Djokovicdelighted with that 33 record.
“It means a lot, but it’s more special to me that I share it with Monica. She didn’t know. He remembers his first meeting with Seles, who at 50 years old continues to live in the United States. “He was very nervous, we speak the same language because he was born in Serbia. We all wonder where he would have been if he had not had to go through what he happened,” recalled ‘Nole’.
“I only have nice words for her,” concluded Djokovic, who on Friday can keep the solo record if he beats Jannik Sinner and Andrey Rublev.
2024-01-24 06:44:53
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