Novak Djokovic suggested injury denied him a chance to compete against Jannik Sinner as he was well beaten in a one-sided Wimbledon semi-final.<\/p>\n
Djokovic\u2019s hopes of a 25th Grand Slam title were dashed once again by Sinner, a few weeks after the Italian beat him at the same stage of the French Open.<\/p>\n
This time, Djokovic cited injury as his biggest problem after a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4, defeat, as he suggested his ageing body is no longer allowing him to get through two weeks of a Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n
He was asked if he felt sad if that was his final appearance on Wimbledon\u2019s Centre Court and offered up a philosophical response.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would be sad, but hopefully it\u2019s not my last match on the Centre Court. I\u2019m not planning to finish my Wimbledon career today,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n
The 12 men to reach four consecutive Grand Slam semi-finals as Jannik Sinner emulates Big Four<\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz emulates \u2018Big 3\u2019 and Sampras, Borg as he hits Wimbledon milestone to reach final<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m planning to come back definitely at least one more time, play on the Centre Court for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n His fall at the end of his match against Flavio Cabolli on Wednesday clearly did some damage to his groin and he admitted that was a big factor in his defeat.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, wasn\u2019t really a pleasant feeling on the court,\u201d he stated. \u201c,I don\u2019t want to talk, in details, about my injury and just whine about not managing to play my best. I want to congratulate Jannik for another great performance. That\u2019s it. He\u2019s in the finals. He was too strong.<\/p>\n \u201cI do feel, yeah, disappointed that I just wasn\u2019t able to move as well as I thought or hoped that I would.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s bad fortune. It\u2019s just age, the wear and tear of the body. As much as I\u2019m taking care of it, the reality hits me right now, last year and a half, like never before, to be honest.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s tough for me to accept that because I feel like when I\u2019m fresh, when I\u2019m fit, I can still play really good tennis. I\u2019ve proven that this year. But yeah, I guess playing best-of-five, particularly this year, has been a real struggle for me physically. The longer the tournament goes, yeah, the worse the condition gets.<\/p>\n \u201cI reach the final stages, I reach the semis of every slam this year, but I have to play Sinner or Alcaraz. These guys are fit, young, sharp. I feel like I\u2019m going into the match with tank half empty. It\u2019s just not possible to win a match like that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is what it is, you know? It\u2019s one of these things I accept and embrace in some way, deal with the reality the way it is, and try to make the most out of it, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n Djokovic also hinted he will look to make changes to his schedule to ensure he gives himself the best chance to be fit through to the end of the US Open, but he appeared to doubt if that will be the case.<\/p>\n \u201cI probably have to revisit everything and see with my team, with my family, how I want to proceed with my schedule and where I want to peak and how I want to train,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what I can do differently, to be honest, because the amount of hours that I spend on a daily basis to take care of myself, I\u2019d like to challenge everyone who is out there on the tour to see if anybody takes care of themselves more than me.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I, unfortunately, don\u2019t get rewarded for that right now, with injuries at the later stages of slams. But I was rewarded for many, many years.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Alexander Zverev makes \u2018hitting harder\u2019 claim as he compares Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner to the \u2018Big 3\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n The post Novak Djokovic reveals if he has played his final match on Wimbledon\u2019s Centre Court<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novak Djokovic suggested injury denied him a chance to compete against Jannik Sinner as he was well beaten in a one-sided Wimbledon semi-final. Djokovic\u2019s hopes of a 25th Grand Slam title were dashed once again by Sinner, a few weeks after the Italian beat him at the same stage of the French Open. This time, […]<\/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-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}