Novak Djokovic shut down concerns about his eye problem and a possible new injury after his loss to world No 32 Alejandro Tabilo at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Serbian broke Tabilo in the opening game of the second round contest, but was badly out of sorts thereafter as he slumped to a 3-6, 4-6 defeat.<\/p>\n
The 24-time major winner was broken three times by the 27-year-old Chilean, while he struck 29 unforced errors in a match that lasted less than 90 minutes.<\/p>\n
Djokovic<\/a>\u00a0was playing his first match of the 2025 clay-court season, having been a runner-up in Miami at the end of March at his previous event.<\/p>\n Here is everything Novak Djokovic said to reporters in a brief press conference after his Monte Carlo exit.<\/p>\n Q. It wasn\u2019t the best day in the office for you today\u2026<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: Best day (laughs)?<\/p>\n Q. Not the best day\u2026<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: It was actually more like the worst day. Look, I was hoping this is not going to happen, but it was quite a high probability I\u2019m going to play this way. I don\u2019t know, just horrible. Horrible feeling to play this way and I\u2019m just sorry for all the people that have to witness this.\u201d<\/p>\n Q. You have at least one explanation?<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t have it. I have it and I don\u2019t have it. I don\u2019t really care.<\/p>\n The 3 men to hold a 2-0 record over Novak Djokovic: Alejandro Tabilo joins exclusive club<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u2018I don\u2019t see Novak Djokovic winning a Grand Slam anymore \u2013 it\u2019s far too complicated\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Q. Earlier they showed you grabbing your arm on the practice court and someone on your team helping you with it, as well?<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: No, it\u2019s all good. It\u2019s all good. Just a minor, minor thing.<\/p>\n Q. And is your eye okay?<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: There\u2019s no injury.<\/p>\n Q. Tough one, I imagine. What\u2019s your goal for this season on clay?<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: Roland Garros.<\/p>\n Q. Roland Garros? That\u2019s it?<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: That\u2019s it (smiling).<\/p>\n Q. I understand your mood, but the other day you said you didn\u2019t have expectation, and I was surprised, because you should have always expectations.<\/p>\n DJOKOVIC: Well, I expected myself at least to have put a decent performance. Not like this, I mean this is horrible. I did not have high expectations, really. I knew I\u2019m gonna have a tough opponent, and I knew I\u2019m gonna probably play pretty bad. But this bad\u2026 I didn\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong>Novak Djokovic\u2019s early Monte Carlo Masters exit \u2018should be viewed as normal\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post Novak Djokovic asked about injury scare and\u00a0eye problem after Monte Carlo Masters shock<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novak Djokovic shut down concerns about his eye problem and a possible new injury after his loss to world No 32 Alejandro Tabilo at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters. The 37-year-old Serbian broke Tabilo in the opening game of the second round contest, but was badly out of sorts thereafter as he slumped to a […]<\/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-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Novak Djokovic News<\/h2>\n