Former British No 1 Laura Robson does not believe Novak Djokovic will be \u201coverly bothered\u201d about his opening round exit at the Qatar Open.<\/p>\n
Robson, who now works as a tennis analyst and tournament director, believes Djokovic\u2019s swift recovery from injury to play in Doha is \u201ca huge positive sign.\u201d<\/p>\n
Djokovic<\/a>\u00a0fell to a convincing 7-6(4), 6-2 defeat to Matteo Berrettini in the first round of the ATP 500 tournament in Qatar.<\/p>\n The Serbian great was playing his first event since sustaining a tear in his left hamstring at the Australian Open last month.<\/p>\n The 37-year-old suffered the injury during his pulsating four-set win against Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n Djokovic was then forced to retire due to the issue after losing the opening set of his semi-final contest with Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n Some felt the Grand Slam record holder may be set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines, but he\u00a0defied such expectations to make a rapid return to action in Doha.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic makes \u2018more challenging\u2019 confession as he addresses suffering \u2018more injuries\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The 13 first-round defeats Novak Djokovic has suffered during his career as incredible streak ends<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In an interview with Eurosport<\/a>, Robson explained why she is not concerned by Djokovic\u2019s early exit in Doha.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s the main positive for Novak, the fact that he\u2019s feeling healthy on the court, again,\u201d the former world No 27 said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way that he finished in Australia. I\u2019m sure it would have been tough for him to reset because he was playing some of his best tennis against Alcaraz, and then a couple of days later, it doesn\u2019t go his way.<\/p>\n \u201cSo just at his age, to be able to rebound as quickly as he has, I think is a huge positive sign. I don\u2019t know that he is overly bothered about losing early in Doha when you consider all the tournaments that he\u2019s won and all his accolades in his career.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know that he\u2019ll take much time to get over this one. So I imagine he\u2019s spoken about it in the past, that he really wants to focus on the fact that he wants to get to 25, and that\u2019s the big goal for this year rather than a small ATP event in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n Djokovic also competed in doubles at the Qatar Open as he partnered former world No 7 Fernando Verdasco at the Spaniard\u2019s last-ever tournament.<\/p>\n The duo hammered Alexander Bublik and Karen Khachanov 6-1, 6-1 in the first round before losing 7-5, 6-4 to second seeds Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten in the last eight.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Novak Djokovic reveals his toughest opponent and the two best moments of his career<\/a> The post Laura Robson gives her verdict on Novak Djokovic after Qatar Open upset<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former British No 1 Laura Robson does not believe Novak Djokovic will be \u201coverly bothered\u201d about his opening round exit at the Qatar Open. Robson, who now works as a tennis analyst and tournament director, believes Djokovic\u2019s swift recovery from injury to play in Doha is \u201ca huge positive sign.\u201d Djokovic\u00a0fell to a convincing 7-6(4), […]<\/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-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Novak Djokovic<\/h2>\n
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