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New York – the old man seems to have spent about half of this US open at the waist, catching his neck or rubbing the temple. At one point earlier in the tournament, Novak Djokovic even said in an interview with ESPN that he was more worried about the condition of his body than he had ever been.
It only happens when you are 38, you acpressed so many kilometers on your feet, playing one of the most demanding sports on earth against opponents in their physical prime minister.
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It hurts.
But when Djokovic takes over the court, the pain always goes in two directions. And with only two exceptions, almost defies the explanation how often Djokovic still makes his opponents suffer more.
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However, this is the two exceptions that stand between Djokovic and 25. The main title. It was so a few years, with Jannik Greener and Carlos Alcaraz, to be aside Grand Slam Glory on the way to generations before them could not do it.
He now planted the highest American Taylor Fritz 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, is time to ask: What should Djokovic do to keep another trip to the open trophy?
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“I have another chance, another shot,” he said after the victory on Tuesday, he deserved his trip to Semis where he would face Alcaraz. “Everyone predicts the two of them. I will try to mess up the best tennis here and they are dominant from the start of the tournament. I don’t think anyone does, but I don’t think anyone does.”
Open the United States was largely followed by the same scenario that Djokovic had experienced in the last two years. Cancel his schedule on a bare minimum, how to keep wear and spend more time at home with your little children, it appears on the Grand Slams from the match shapes and missing the ball.
In the first few rounds, Djokovic seems to take it there, but it’s still so much too good and tactically superior that he went through the road. Then every day the tournament progresses, its endurance endurance and footage becomes more punishable. By the time he came to the quarterfinals and faces opponents as Fritz – impressed no. 4, but in Major is reasonably reasonably faximilimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimms to put some of the world’s best players in a mental torture chamber.
Fritz, Poor guy, is now 0-for 11 against Djokovic. In 27, he hit the middle of his window he won. But as much as he says he has a better chance every time he is played, he is lost because at the beginning he tried to understand how to penetrate Djokovic’s game and get enough right points.
Novak Djokovic returns the shot against Taylor Fritz during the quarterfinal circle of the American Championships on Tennis. (AP PHOTO / ADAM HUNGER)
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Even Tuesday, after the first two sets fell, Fritz dug up and felt like it was collecting momentum as long as it went. Djokovic visibly worn. As the match reached almost 3 hours, Djokovic entered 5-4 in the fourth set in the fourth set, hoping to break Fritz and interrupt the match. Fritz fought two matches. Djokovic caught his shorts and gasped his breath.
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It was felt that the moment he could turn the whole match around if Fritz had just held service. He couldn’t. At the third place, Djokovic drew a double mistake – Microcosm as Fritz and his late 20’s peers simply failed to break the code.
“It’s frustrating things I don’t have to play so much better if that happens,” Fritz said, who desperately wanted another footage in the United States after he lost last year. “At the end of the day, it’s one of the things that makes great players great to win the big points. I have to take those points from him. He won’t hand them over to me and that’s exactly what happened.”
Of course, two Djokovic players are likely to win to get titles that did not fight this dynamic.
Although Alcaraz was more vulnerable for him, lose high profile match at Đoković at last year’s Olympic Games, and on this Australian Open this January, he was impenetrable to this is open. The playing of the most cruel tennis for his career, the 22-year-old Alcaraz did not even come near to drop the set. Their match on Friday in the semifinals will be the ninth time when they played, with Djokovic holding the edge of 5-3.
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Meanwhile, the sinner was beaten by Djokovic five straight times, two on the way to the main headings. The 24-year-old Italian became an almost stylish copy of the Ujoković carbon, only with more power on its substrates. For Djokovic at this stage of his career, maybe the most important match there.
According to the right circumstances, Djokovic can beat any one of them a certain day. But beating them back for no. 25, at this stage of the game, it would be the greatest achievement of your career.
“It won’t be easier for you, I’ll tell you that,” he said. “But I’ll watch, I’ll try to take my body at the time. Try to relax and ready to fight five sets. I just want to be needed to play potentially five sets.
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Although it is the adoption of the semifinals of all four major 2025 years, given how little Djokovic played a regular tour, he is real enough to know how every year he has a little more than him. He knows that this could be his last, best chance.
But at least he gave one, and for the biggest biggest winner we saw in any sport, it is muscle memory even pain and pain of 38 years cannot delete.
