The Mystery Surrounding Novak Djokovic: Will He Be Ready for Roland Garros 2024?

There is one week left until Roland Garros 2024 starts and the situation in which Novak Djokovic will arrive is an absolute mystery. His brief time at the Rome Masters 1000 left more doubts than certainties, awakening some opinions from experts about his state of form. Will the Serbian have enough time to compete for the title in Paris? Will he play any extra tournaments next week? Why hasn’t he won any titles in these first five months of the season?

One who wanted to put his foot in the puddle, although not to the bottom, was Andy Roddick. The American knows the circuit perfectly and also the Balkan player, with whom he faced up to nine times, dominating the H2H by 5-4. But now his work is no longer on the slopes, but rather explaining what happens within them. Through his podcast ‘Served’ and in statements collected by Eurosport, the former world No. 1 left this brief analysis about the man who brings together all the tennis spotlights right now.

“It is a very strange moment, I am not one of those who get carried away by a given result, but in the last six months we have seen him fall decisively against Jannik Sinner in Melbourne, he also lost to Alex De Minaur in the United Cup and he lost to Luca Nardi in Indian Wells, which is quite strange considering that he came after several days of preparation,” the Nebraskan begins by x-raying.

“It is true that in Monte Carlo he makes the semifinals, for the rest of us it would be our best result ever in a Masters 1000 on clay, but he arrives and loses to Casper Ruud, a player against whom he had never lost a set in previous duels. The most worrying thing was seeing him struggling with his breathing, he was short of breath at some moments of the game. In Rome he gives him the bottle thing, only he can tell us how he feels, but then he goes out and loses to Tabilo… who is a good player, but he is not Novak Djokovic,” Roddick underlines.

NEXT EXAM: PARIS

In the absence of resolution of the bait launched by the ATP 250 in Geneva for Djokovic to add one more event to his clay court tour, everything indicates that Novak will go to Paris with what he has on. And what is the post? A balance of 12-5 in the five tournaments played this season. The record is poor considering that we are talking about the best player of all time, but precisely for this reason there are people who are still waiting for a turn of events in the last corner. Of course, it is not easy to put your hand in the fire.

“The good thing about the Grand Slams is that you are not playing with kids who are 25 years old in the first round, so you have time to advance and overcome ugly matches. Maybe Novak makes it through the first week and becomes Novak again. […] “Right now I’m more worried about his game than I was in the last 15 years,” Roddick surprises in his speech during the podcast.

“I’m not saying that I would be surprised to see him play well at Roland Garros, but how long will it take before we can say that Novak is fine? How long will we trust to see him turn certain situations around again, to see that he is the same Novak as always? I’ve been saying this all year, but in Rome everything was very strange. Right now the ramp is pointing to the highest: Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the Olympic Games. He has said that he is prioritizing the Olympics. but I don’t see that he is picking up speed as that ramp approaches,” the American confesses with complete sincerity.

In conclusion: not even people who know what this is all about are able to give an explanation for the decline in performance of the Belgrade tennis player. “I am worried about his state of form, it may just be a strange situation, that even someone like Novak needs a constant cadence with tennis,” Andy warns, pointing to his lack of activity in 2024 as responsible for his performance. of the. “I don’t know if you can come out big after a break, make everything work again no matter how great you are. “We are used to that greatness in which Novak does not need any coincidence, but we cannot expect him to be the best forever,” he says.

2024-05-17 11:25:56
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