Tennis icon Bjorn Borg has given his verdict on Novak Djokovic\u2019s chances of winning a 25th Grand Slam title and also named the player he considers to be the greatest ever.<\/p>\n
Djokovic<\/a> holds the all-time record for the most Grand Slam men\u2019s singles titles, having secured his 24th and most recent major at the 2023 US Open.<\/p>\n The 38-year-old holds almost all of the other most significant records in men\u2019s tennis, including: weeks spent as world No 1 (428), ATP year-end No 1 finishes (eight), ATP Finals titles (seven) and Masters 1000 titles (40).<\/p>\n The Serbian fell at the semi-final stage at all four majors this season, and he will play his first event since the US Open at the Shanghai Masters next month<\/a>.<\/p>\n In an interview with Sky Sports<\/a>, Borg gave his backing to Djokovic in the GOAT debate and also in his quest to win another Grand Slam.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the way he\u2019s playing, Djokovic, for me, is the greatest player to have ever played the game,\u201d said the 11-time major champion.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then the second place comes to (Roger) Federer and (Rafa) Nadal. They tied for the second place.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how he (Djokovic) can play that kind of tennis, 38 years old. I\u2019m very impressed.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic\u2019s \u2018tennis father\u2019 Nikola Pilic dies at 86 \u2013 and he leaves a remarkable legacy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alcaraz, Swiatek, Sinner, Sabalenka push for more money and reform as Djokovic notably absent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI know he wants to win that 25th Grand Slam tournament. I hope he\u2019s going to play one more year, at least next year too, because the tennis he\u2019s playing.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough with [Jannik] Sinner and [Carlos] Alcaraz and some other players too, but still, he can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with Tennis365<\/a>, Rick Macci \u2014 a childhood coach of Venus and Serena Williams \u2014 shared his thoughts on Djokovic\u2019s future.<\/p>\n \u201cI think he\u2019ll keep playing simply because, once again, kind of like Venus [Williams] \u2014 but obviously it\u2019s different \u2013 he just loves the competition,\u201d said the American.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy would you want to put your body through that, get up every day, he has a family\u2026 you\u2019re not doing it for a paycheck! He just loves the competition. And I think if he feels he can win, okay, he\u2019ll continue to play.<\/p>\n \u201cI think he\u2019ll keep playing because he loves the competition. But, the minute he doesn\u2019t play the Grand Slams; game, set, match \u2014 he\u2019ll call it a career.<\/p>\n \u201cBut as long as he still loves it and he feels he has a chance, he\u2019s gonna go for it. And never, ever, ever underestimate the heart of a champion.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Novak Djokovic \u2018door is closed\u2019 as retirement predicted soon by leading tennis voice<\/a> The post Bjorn Borg goes against the grain with Novak Djokovic Grand Slam statement as he names the GOAT<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tennis icon Bjorn Borg has given his verdict on Novak Djokovic\u2019s chances of winning a 25th Grand Slam title and also named the player he considers to be the greatest ever. Djokovic holds the all-time record for the most Grand Slam men\u2019s singles titles, having secured his 24th and most recent major at the 2023 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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