It has been revealed where Novak Djokovic will play next \u2013 and the tennis great is set to stick to his intended tournament schedule despite concerns over his fitness.<\/p>\n
The Serbian\u2019s participation at the Indian Wells Masters has been confirmed, with the tournament\u2019s social media account posting a picture of Djokovic with the following caption: \u201cA legend returns to the desert.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indian Wells, which is the first\u00a0ATP Masters 1000 event of the season, will be held from March 5 to 16.<\/p>\n
Djokovic<\/a>\u00a0suffered a tear in his left hamstring during his four-set win against Carlos Alcaraz at the Australian Open last month.<\/p>\n The injury forced Djokovic to retire after the first set of his semi-final with Alexander Zverev in Melbourne, but he made a swift recovery to return to action for this week\u2019s Qatar Open.<\/p>\n The 37-year-old was beaten 7-6(4), 6-2 by Matteo Berrettini in the first round of the ATP 500 tournament and insisted afterwards that he felt fine physically.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t have any pain or discomfort in that sense. I was outplayed by just a better player today,\u201d Djokovic told reporters in Doha.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, I wasn\u2019t at my desired level, and it could be that I\u2019m still not moving the way I want to move, but, I mean, I played without pain, so there is no excuse in that.<\/p>\n Fresh fears over Novak Djokovic\u2019s injury after worrying video emerges<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s fairly straightforward that Novak Djokovic is the greatest male player of all time\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHe was just the better player. I think he played a masterclass match, to be honest, tactically, and served very well, so just a very deserved win from his side.\u201d<\/p>\n Djokovic also played two matches in the Qatar Open doubles event as he reached the quarter-finals with Fernando Verdasco at the Spaniard\u2019s last-ever event.<\/p>\n Despite Djokovic\u2019s assertion that he played without pain, a video emerged of him appearing to limp as he entered an airport to depart from Doha.<\/p>\n This raised some fears that the world No 7 could have made his comeback from the hamstring tear too soon and suffered a recurrence, or that a different injury had surfaced.<\/p>\n The 24-time Grand Slam winner\u2019s commitment to play in Indian Wells, though, suggests he is not worried about his physical state.<\/p>\n Djokovic has revealed he is \u201clikely\u201d to resume his player-coach collaboration with Andy Murray in Indian Wells after a hugely positive start to the relationship at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n The Serbian suffered a shock defeat to Luca Nardi in the third round of the 2024 Indian Wells Masters. That was his first appearance at the tournament in the Californian desert since 2019.<\/p>\n Djokovic is a five-time Indian Wells champion.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Novak Djokovic makes \u2018more challenging\u2019 confession as he addresses suffering \u2018more injuries\u2019<\/a> The post Novak Djokovic\u2019s next tournament confirmed despite injury concerns after Doha comeback<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been revealed where Novak Djokovic will play next \u2013 and the tennis great is set to stick to his intended tournament schedule despite concerns over his fitness. The Serbian\u2019s participation at the Indian Wells Masters has been confirmed, with the tournament\u2019s social media account posting a picture of Djokovic with the following caption: […]<\/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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Novak Djokovic News<\/h2>\n
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