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Nick Kyrgios believes Novak Djokovic has less than a year of tennis in him and revealed a telling conversation they shared at Indian Wells.

After a career lasting 23 years, much thought has been given to when Djokovic may finally hang up the racket, joining Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer in retirement.

For now, the 38-year-old has kept tight-lipped on any possible exit but Kyrgios believes the most successful player in men’s game history does not have many tournaments left in him.

Speaking on the All on the Table podcast, Kyrgios revealed a conversation he had in the dressing room with Djokovic during Indian Wells that hinted he may not have long left.

“I think he’s got to be finished soon,” Kyrgios said. “Like, come on, what more? I asked him this at Indian Wells this year. We were in the locker room and I said ‘why are you here? Why are you playing?’ He just goes ‘I don’t know.’

“I go ‘what about your kids, I know you want to spend time with your family’. He said ‘yeah, I don’t know’. That was the first time I think he misses his family a lot. I stay in touch with him all the time.

“I can’t see him playing for more than another year. Not again. Not the whole year again. He is so professional. I am just speaking from my experience if I had a family like his and kids.

“It’s like Andy Murray. It’s like you play your whole career and then you retire and you don’t spend any time at home, you just go straight into coaching again. If I was his partner I would be so angry!”

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Djokovic hinted at a possible planned exit date when he spoke after his semi-final loss at Roland Garros. In his speech to the crowd, the Serbian said that it could well be his last game on the court.

“This could have been the last match ever I played here – I don’t know. That’s why it was a bit more emotional at the end. But if this was the farewell match of Roland Garros for me in my career, it was a wonderful one in terms of the atmosphere and what I got from the crowd.”

Pressed further on that he added: “I don’t know right now. Twelve months at this point in my career is quite a long time. Do I wish to play more? Yes, I do. But will I be able to play in 12 months’ time here again? I don’t know. That’s all I can say for the moment.”

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Novak Djokovic has been told that it is his mentality, not his physicality, that will prevent him from winning a 25th Grand Slam.

The Serbian is undoubtedly towards the end of his career but still continues to go deep in tournaments, reaching the semi-final in all three slams this year.

But with the rise of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, there is much debate over whether Djokovic, the most successful male player of all time, will ever win another slam.

Djokovic himself has suggested his body moves a little slower but the 38-year-old has been told that his inability to win is in his head, not his body.

“From my opinion, is only here,” Patrick Mouratoglou said whilst pointing to his head on the All on the Table podcast.

“Only because the guy wins three grand slams and in the final of the fourth, three months later, the guy is nowhere. It’s impossible.

“He didn’t lose his tennis he’s just realised that he would be the best of all time because Rafa [Nadal] was out.

Djokovic surpassed Nadal for the record number of slams won after his victory at the 2023 French Open. Since then, Djokovic has won just one more slam as well as the 2024 Olympics.

“You know the thing he was fighting for 15 years, suddenly there is no more goal,” Mouratoglou continued. “So I think he completely lost the motivation, which is easy to understand. It’s normal.

“He got motivated again just for the Olympics, and then he was a beast at the Olympics.”

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Mouratoglou did suggest that the one motivation Djokovic has left is to show he can still mix it with the top of the game, as seen in his match at Roland Garros against Sinner.

“I don’t know if you saw his match against Sinner at Roland Garros but I felt he was more in demonstration mode than really wanting to win. I exaggerate a little

“If he really wanted to win, I feel he would have won. That’s crazy, but he’s such an unbelievable competitor, I think he would have won.

“But he just wanted to feel I can beat, I can potentially beat those guys. They’re not miles away from me. And I want to, I want to enjoy the moment. I want the crowd to like me. I want to do a nice press conference after. I exaggerate but I felt this the whole match.”

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Iga Swiatek has admitted that her Wimbledon triumph is still “hard to describe” as she reflected on her triumph in a new Instagram post.

World No 3 Swiatek captured her first Wimbledon title last Saturday with a historic 6-0, 6-0 triumph over Amanda Anisimova, needing just 57 minutes to defeat the American in an extraordinary result.

Victory saw the Pole become the first player from her nation to triumph in singles at the All England Club, and become just the eighth woman to complete the ‘Surface Slam’, having now won major titles on hard, clay, and grass courts.

Swiatek’s victory on Centre Court ended a 13-month trophy drought amid recent form struggles, with the Pole ultimately dropping just one set over the fortnight on her way to her sixth Grand Slam title.

Wimbledon had statistically been the 24-year-old’s weakest Grand Slam tournament before 2025, with just one previous quarter-final showing to her name.

However, her rampant run to the title has cemented her return to form and further seals her place in the record books as a champion at the oldest and most prestigious tournament in tennis.

Swiatek revealed in her post-final speech that winning the title had always felt “way too far” away, and, in a new post on social media, admitted the magnitude of her triumph was still sinking in.

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She wrote: “Winning Wimbledon was always such a distant dream for me that it actually has never crossed my mind to think about it.

“It’s hard to describe the emotions that arise in me now that this dream has come true. Even after these few days I am still putting it together in my mind.

“I am very happy and proud that working day after day and having the support of my team in every situation (as I said after the game, sometimes they believed in me more than I believed in myself), we achieved something so magical.

“Now I understand this uniqueness and, in a way, the momentousness of this tournament. I will never forget these emotions and experiences as much as I will always remember how much work on and off the court it cost me to get to this place.

“And now it’s time to catch my breath.”

After her Wimbledon triumph, Swiatek is currently set to return to action at the Canadian Open, which gets underway in just under a fortnight.

The Pole has never previously triumphed at the tournament and skipped the event in 2024 due to her Paris 2024 Olympic Games campaign, as did a handful of other ATP and WTA players.

Swiatek is then set to play the Cincinnati Open, where she was a semi-finalist in 2024, before the final Grand Slam tournament of the year at the US Open, which starts on August 24th.

The world No 3 is set to play in the revamped mixed doubles tournament alongside Casper Ruud prior to the singles event, before she competes for what would be a seventh Grand Slam singles title.

Swiatek previously triumphed at the US Open back in 2022, beating Ons Jabeur in the final.

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Emma Raducanu’s Wimbledon dream may have died for another year in a tight defeat against world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka on the Centre Court, but her performances in the grass court season have fired her back into the top 20 of the alternative tennis rankings.

Raducanu returned to the British No 1 ranking position after her run to the quarter-finals in the WTA 500 event at the Queen’s Club last month and held onto the position until last Monday, when she was overtaken by compatriots Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal.

Yet her performances over the grass court season have fired Raducanu up to No 20 in the updated UTR Rating, which are based on the current form from the last few weeks and months rather than reflecting results that occurred up to a year ago.

The UTR Ranking is open to players of all levels of the game and the algorithm used provides an intriguing insight at the top of the game.

All players, regardless of age, gender, geography, or skill level, are rated on the same scale between 1.00 and 16.50 based on actual match results, with club players joining the world’s best on the ranking system.

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Raducanu’s impressive wins in 2025 that saw her piece together a fine run to the quarter-finals at the Miami Open and then show some good form on grass courts helped her to rise to No 20 in the UTR list, which is a full 25 places above where she sits in the official WTA Rankings.

The 2021 US Open champion has taken time away from the game in recent years after busy periods, but she is looking to get back on court quickly next week as she has entered the WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington from July 21-27, where she will make her third appearance at the hard-court event.

She will also look to play in the WTA 1000 event in Montreal that gets underway at the end of July and will have a chance to play at the WTA 1000 tournament in Cincinnati a week later.

Then she will return to the scene of her greatest triumph at Flushing Meadows for the US Open, with that event getting underway on Sunday, August 25th.

By then, Raducanu will look to have hired a new coach, with her temporary agreement with Mark Petchey coming to an end after Wimbledon.

Petchey has had a big impact on Raducanu’s game, but his broadcasting commitments mean he cannot commit full time to Raducanu and he has urged her to find an alternative coach.

“I think at the moment we are a bit more short term,” he told the Nothing Ventured podcast. “She’s practising this week in London and her next tournament is Washington, and she’ll stay in the States the whole time.

“Our situation is a little fluid at the moment. I am going to help her this week as much as I can, but I have some other commitments I can’t get out of.

“We are very aware she needs a second coach to come on board and maybe just one coach, not me, as well.

“All I am trying to do is facilitate the best possible environment for Emma to produce the tennis she can.

“Whether that involves me or does not involve me is not a question that I’m worried about. We are just trying to find something that will be stable or good for her.”

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6. Madison Keys

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8. Elina Svitolina

9. Elena Rybakina

10. Marketa Vondrousova

11. Jessica Pegula

12. Amanda Anisimova

13. Liudmila Samsonova

14. Jasmine Paolini

15. Belinda Bencic

16. Paula Badosa

17. Elise Mertens

18. Emma Navarro

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Jannik Sinner’s coach Darren Cahill is reportedly expected to delay his retirement and will still appear in the Italian’s box in the 2026 season.

Australia Cahill had expected to retire at the end of 2025 having joined Sinner’s coaching team in July 2022 but a report from Il Corriere della Sera says the 59-year-old has reversed that decision and will still be part of the Italian’s coaching group next year.

The Italian paper reported on Wednesday that Cahill’s role will be reduced, most notably with him travelling less, but he will still be in the World No.1’s box for the important events on the tennis calendar.

Simone Vagnozzi remains Sinner’s primary coach but Cahill has also been credited for a large part of the player’s recent success.

The player also still has to choose a new athletic trainer and physiotherapist with Marco Panichi and Ulises Badio departing just before Wimbledon.

The newly crowned Wimbledon champion was thought to be doing everything in his power to convince Cahill to stay and recently revealed the pair had a bet over their shared future.

“It depends on whether I want to tell the truth or not,” Sinner said in his press conference following the final.

“We had a bet before the final. I told him, ‘If I win tomorrow, I can decide whether you stay until the end of the year or not.’ Now the choice is mine!

“I’ve always looked for an honest person. Someone who gives me so much, not just on the tennis court, but in life outside of it, about how to live both in victories and disappointments. And he’s very good. If I choose to stay with him, he probably won’t travel so much anymore. That’s normal.

“We’ll have to see about that too. But I’ve always said, back in Australia, that I’d like to have him, because things are going well. Now we’ll see. The season is still nothing, there are still so many tournaments to go, and I’ll still see him a lot. You never know. But let’s say I won the bet and now it’s up to me to decide, we’ll see.”

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Sinner’s other coach, Vagnozzi, was one of those pictured crying in the stands and the four-time Grand Slam winner was asked if this was also one of his most special wins. The 23-year-old however suggested it is hard to top the first.

“It’s hard to say. Because you always start from one, and my first was in Australia. Every Slam is very special, obviously it’s also part of history here because it’s the most prestigious tournament we have. And you can see in many things that here it’s very different from the other Slams.

“And so this was very special. In my opinion, what we overcame before this Slam was very special. All the talk about the 3-4 month break, it wasn’t easy. And now being here with the trophy makes it really special.”

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Jannik Sinner may have pocketed a big sum of prize money for his triumph at Wimbledon but the UK government will be taking a fair chunk of that.

The Italian defeated his adversary Carlos Alcaraz three sets to one at the grass court showpiece event and as well as the famous trophy, Sinner earned a huge amount in prize money.

For 2025, both the men’s and women’s singles champion took home £3 million ($4.05 million) of a total $72.2 million prize pool but a finance expert has claimed that figure could be reduced to $2.5 million once relevant taxes have been paid.

Sean Packard, OFS Wealth’s tax director, told Forbes that in the UK, prize money is charged an initial withholding tax of 20% before paying up to 45% back to the government. Sinner would also have to pay tax on any endorsements he received for the equipment he used during the tournament.

The Italian would then have to pay income tax at his place of residence but the 23-year-old is registered in the tax haven of Monaco. Sinner is not the only tennis player to take advantage of this perk with Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, Holger Rune and Stefanos Tsitsipas all officially living in the microstate.

Losing finalist Alcaraz still lives in Alicante, so will have to pay tax in Spain too on his £1,520,000 winnings.

Women’s winner Iga Swiatek meanwhile still lives in Poland where she will have to pay an additional 4%, translating roughly to $162,000.

Losing finalist Amanda Anisimova will be required to pay additional US payments such as self-employment levies or additional Medicare surtax.

As well as the financial achievement, Sinner’s victory over Alcaraz allowed him to put the French Open defeat behind him. Of that comeback, Sinner was said it was the aspect he was most proud of.

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“This, I think, is the part where I’m the proudest of because it really has not been easy. I always tried to be honest with me and had the self-talk too, you know, what if, what if? I always tried to accept it, in a way.

“Things can happen. I believe if you lose a Grand Slam final that way, it’s much better like this than someone kills you, you know, that you make two games. Then after you keep going, keep pushing.

“I did a lot of intensity in every practice because I felt like that I could play very good. That’s why I also said after Roland Garros that it’s not the time to put me down, no, because another Grand Slam is coming up, and I did great here.”

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Jannik Sinner’s crowning glory may have arrived on Centre Court as he beat his great rival Carlos Alcaraz in Sunday’s Wimbledon final, but the story that dominated the first half of 2025 continues to haunt him.

Sinner’s brilliance as he beat Alcaraz in four sets at Wimbledon to secure him a first Wimbledon title, but some critics were quick to suggest he should not have been on the grass courts at all this summer.

The world No 1 served a three-month ban prior to the Italian Open in May after he tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug at the 2024 Indian Wells Masters tournament.

He could have been banned for a year if his case had gone against him at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with the plea bargain he made with the World Anti-Doping Agency ensuring he didn’t miss any Grand Slam tournaments.

After reaching the final of the French Open last month, Sinner took advantage of his good fortune after he was only banned for a brief period of time by winning at Wimbledon, yet the critics were quick to suggest his victory was tarnished by his past.

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It came as no surprise that Nick Kyrgios was among the first to cast doubts over Sinner’s credibility as Wimbledon champion, as the 2022 runner-up at the All England Club posted a message that included just an asterisk on his X account, clearly suggesting the Italian’s win will always have a question mark hanging over it.

Experienced British journalist Oliver Holty went much further, as he suggested Sinner’s win at Wimbledon was a ‘bad day for the sport’

Jannik Sinner shouldn’t even have been playing at Wimbledon, let alone winning it. Bleak day for the tournament and for tennis

— Oliver Holt (@OllieHolt22) July 13, 2025

Radio phone-ins in the UK also discussed whether Sinner’s Wimbledon win was tarnished by his doping ban, while Ben Rumsby in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper declared it was an awful look for Wimbledon to have two players who served drugs bans winning the titles.

That was referencing Iga Swiatek, who was unfortunate to fail a drug test last year after testing positive after using a contaminated sleeping product.

Sinner’s doping story was a little more complex, with his claim that one of his team members used a spray on his cut finger that would then contaminate the Italian player during a massage questioned by many observers.

Yet Sinner suggested his win at Wimbledon was all the more special considering the challenges he has lived through over the last 18 months.

“Only me and the people who are close to me know exactly what we have been through on and off the court, and it has been everything except easy,” Sinner said.

“Very emotional, even if I don’t cry. To share this moment with my whole family here, it’s the most amazing thing that could have happened to me.”

Sinner’s coach Darren Cahill also looked back on the challenging year after Sinner’s Wimbledon triumph.

“His year has been challenging for everybody involved,” said Cahill.

“The person that you see on the tennis court – this focus and attention to detail – is not the same guy off the court.

“He’s a fun-loving guy who is joking around all the time and loves the company of the people around him.

“He’s cooking, messing up stuff, making mistakes all over the place, and we’re laughing about it.”

Sinner may want the world to forget about his doping ban, but the reports during and after his Wimbledon win confirm this will always be a part of his story.

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Renowned coach Brad Gilbert has come under fire over his social media post about Iga Swiatek’s Wimbledon title run following her emphatic win over Amanda Anisimova in the final.

Swiatek started the grass-court Grand Slam as the eighth seed and defeated the unseeded Paolina Kudermetova, Caty McNally and Danielle Collins to reach the fourth round where she took on the 23rd-seeded Clara Tauson.

After beating the Dane in straight sets, she also saw off the 19th seeded Liudmila Samsonova in two sets before getting the better of the unseeded Belinda Bencic 6-2, 6-0 in the semi-final.’

The four-time French Open champion then demolished the 13th-seeded Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in the Championship match to become only the first woman in the Open Era to win Wimbledon without dropping a game as she took her Grand Slam tally to six.

The great Steffi Graf was the first to achieve the astonishing feat as she beat Natasha Zvereva by the same scoreline in the 1988 French Open final.

Gilbert, who mentored several big-name players including Andy Roddick, Andy Murray and Coco Gauff, took to X to share a “crazy” stat about Swiatek’s Wimbledon seven opponents at the All England Club.

“Crazy Iga Pop tourney stat, the highest ranked player she has played this @Wimbledon Samsonova at 19 AA is ranked 12, not sure when last time someone won a slam without facing a top 10 player @tennistweetscom @SharkoTennis @tennistweetscom,” the American wrote.

Not long after that post, he shared his disappointment with the way the final turned out.

“That’s a very sad day for tennis on center court @Wimbledon got to feel for AA last time that happened 1988 @rolandgarros final was like 35 mins Graf vs Zverev,” he wrote.

But Swiatek’s physiotherapist Maciej Ryszczuk hit back at his original comment about the Pole not facing a top-10 player at the 2025 tournament.

“@bgtennisnation it’s so low that even you can feel the bottom. Do your research better. Winning ugly doesn’t mean commenting ugly,” he replied.

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Ryszczuk, of course, is right as several recent Grand Slam titles have been won with players not facing a top-10 player and it was pointed out that former world No 1 Ashleigh Barty won all three her Grand Slams without facing a top-10 player during the tournament.

Swiatek’s 2022 French Open title run was also won without the Pole facing a top-10 player.

Gilbert decided to pour cold water on the flames by writing: “Everyone take a freaking chill pill it’s twitter oouch on sensitivity.”

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