The Serbian Novak Djokovic37 years old, will not forget the 2024 season because he achieved his golden dream, winning a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for a hero of his country.
This position at the top of the podium at Roland Garros, after winning the final match Carlos Alcaraz, easing the many hurdles he missed this season.
After a great 2023, in which he won three of the four Grand Slams, reaching 24 Australian titles Margaret Court, empty locker this year. Semifinals at Australian Open, fourth in Roland Garros, who did not compete because he injured and had to have surgery on the meniscus in his right knee, the Wimbledon final and the third round at the US Open.
Nothing like this has happened since 2017, a campaign marred by an elbow injury. He stopped in the middle of the course, he did not compete for the last six months.
This led to his only loss to ATP Finals, the Masters of the best eight of the year, in seventeen editions, since its debut in 2007. It ended the season in twelfth place in the ATP rankings. It was a logical consequence when he stopped playing after retiring in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against the Czech. Tomas Berdych.
At the start of 2024, he couldn’t imagine that he would struggle before the final stages of the season. Seven-time ATP Finals champion, including the two most recent, in Turin 2022 and 2023, he risks being left out of this event, which would also mean deducting 1,300 points from his world ranking account.
Novak Djokovic is not in the top-8 of the Race to Turin. He planned to consolidate his position in New York before the ATP Finals, but on the contrary, it weakened. The American has surpassed it Taylor Fritz and the Australian Alex de Minaur.
It has 3,260 cumulative points, it is only 45 away from the established cutoff Of Minaur. must Fritzseventh, at 130, although the US Open semifinalist could add more.
Behind Djokovic, the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrovin just over 400 points.
Djokovic has room to react, although it depends on what kind of schedule he wants to face. He was called up to play the Serbia-Greece Davis Cup tie, September 14 and 15.
In 2023 he did not attend the Shanghai Masters 1000 ATP (October 2-13), he dedicated himself to win the Paris Masters 1000 ATP (October 28-November 3) and ATP Finals in Turin (November 10-17).
By the way there is an immediate wild card, which will be the tournament ATP 250 Belgrade, now indoor and hard court, from November 3 to 9, right between Paris and Turin.
1. Jannik Sinner (Ita) / 7,800 pts.
2. Alexander Zverev (Ale) / 5,915
3. Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) / 6,010
4. Daniil Medvedev (Russian) / 4,420
5. Casper Ruud (Nor) / 3,795
6. Andrey Rublev (Russian) / 3,480
7. Taylor Fritz (USA)/ 3,390
8. Alex de Minaur (Aus) / 3,305
9. Novak Djokovic (Srb)/ 3,260
10. Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) / 2,835
Source: La Verdad
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