Roger Federer\u2019s former coach Paul Annacone has reacted to Novak Djokovic\u2019s latest historic accomplishment as he proclaimed that the tennis icon\u2019s retirement will be \u201cbad news\u201d for the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n
Djokovic<\/a>\u2018s qualification for the 2025 ATP Finals was confirmed last week, making him the third player to book their spot in Turin after Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n The 38-year-old has now qualified for the ATP Finals 18 times, which has seen him tie Federer<\/a>\u2018s record for the most qualifications for the men\u2019s season-ending championships.<\/p>\n The Serb has qualified for the ATP Finals every year besides 2017 since making his debut at the event in 2007. Djokovic has secured a record seven titles from his 16 appearances at the ATP Finals (he missed the 2024 edition after qualifying).<\/p>\n Speaking on Tennis Channel, Annacone marvelled at Djokovic\u2019s 18th qualification for the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been scratching my head for a number of years, and this is just another one of those stats,\u201d said the former world No 12.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always so hard when you look at what our icons are able to do. You know, you look at what they do and the way they do it, and you take it for granted.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic\u2019s schedule for rest of 2025 revealed after Paris Masters decision<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n What Novak Djokovic said about how \u2018close\u2019 he is to Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe bad news is, everyone that comes after them, they then get compared to that. So it\u2019s going to be a struggle.<\/p>\n \u201cThe guy\u2019s just been amazing. He\u2019s just rewriting the record books. But the big question is, will he be there (at the ATP Finals)?\u201d<\/p>\n Annacone was then asked whether Djokovic\u2019s record at the ATP Finals was more impressive than his record at majors since only top players qualify for the year-end championships.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the majors are tougher because it\u2019s three out of five sets, two weeks. It\u2019s a different kind of pressure,\u201d the American assessed.<\/p>\n \u201cHere (at the ATP Finals), you can lose a match and still win the title. And I\u2019ve seen [Pete] Sampras do that, I\u2019ve seen it happen in the past. So it\u2019s a little less pressure. But there aren\u2019t any good draws here.\u201d<\/p>\n Steve Johnson, a former world No 21, gave his verdict on Djokovic\u2019s 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been good, but not good enough to where he\u2019s wanted to be, right? By anybody else\u2019s standards other than his own, it\u2019s been a great year,\u201d said the American, who won four ATP singles titles.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s made semis of all the Slams, he just hasn\u2019t gotten to number 25, which I believe is the only thing that he is still kind of reaching for at this point in his career.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: \u2018There is no reason for Novak Djokovic to play anymore\u2019, says former world No 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Roger Federer\u2019s ex-coach says Novak Djokovic\u2019s retirement will be \u2018bad news\u2019 for his rivals<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roger Federer\u2019s former coach Paul Annacone has reacted to Novak Djokovic\u2019s latest historic accomplishment as he proclaimed that the tennis icon\u2019s retirement will be \u201cbad news\u201d for the ATP Tour. Djokovic\u2018s qualification for the 2025 ATP Finals was confirmed last week, making him the third player to book their spot in Turin after Carlos Alcaraz […]<\/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-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Novak Djokovic News<\/h2>\n