Novak Djokovic has acunderstandledgeted he is “griefful” that most of his lengthy-term rivals have reweary from tennis. The 24-time Grand Slam prosperner nameverifyed Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal before materializeing in an showion align in Buenos Aires to tag Juan Martin del Potro’s quitment.
Djokovic claimed his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in 2008 and has won more Major titles than any other man in the history of the sport.
But his powers materialize to be on the wane and it is only a matter of time before he too calls time on his illustrious nurtureer.
Djokovic was brimming of depressed as he setd to face Del Potro, who was forced to quit the sport two-and-a-half years ago after flunking to recover from a grave knee injury.
And after being asked if the come atraverse taged the finish of an era, the Serbian make cleared: “Yes and no. I am still percreateing and I think I am part of a gelderlyen era.
“Federer, Nadal, Murray, Delpo, [Stan] Wawrinka, it is a very exceptional era for our sport. Our personal nurtureers have been shaped by all these rivalries of the last 15 years. For me, seeing at this year, it is an incredible skinnyg. I am a bit griefful because my wonderfulest rivals have left.
“A part of me, in terms of tennis, also exits with them, but I persist to seek this motivation. Now I labor with a novel coach, one of my hugegest rivals, who encourages me to see if we can accomplish wonderful skinnygs in our sport.”
Djokovic is still intensifyed on prosperning more titles before putting his racket down for excellent and nominateed Murray as his coach last weekfinish.
And converseing the connect up with the Briton, Djokovic telderly Sky Sports on Friday: “I was going thcimpolite a process of skinnyking about next season in the past couple of months and figuring out what I necessitateed as I stopped with my coach Goran Ivanisevic, who I was prosperous with.
“I took about six months to skinnyk if I repartner necessitateed a coach and if yes, who is that going to be and the profile of the coach.
“We were going thcimpolite branch offent names and I authenticised at this point the perfect coach would be someone who has been thcimpolite the experiences I have been thcimpolite.
“A multiple Grand Slam prosperner and I was skinnyking about a restricted and the Andy Murray converseion materializeed on the table with my team. I choosed I would give him a call and see how it goes.
“It caught him off defend a little bit as he wasn’t foreseeing it. We connected repartner speedy and he huged it after a restricted days. I can’t be more excited about it.”
