Novak Djokovic has been told that it is his mentality, not his physicality, that will prevent him from winning a 25th Grand Slam.<\/p>\n
The Serbian is undoubtedly towards the end of his career but still continues to go deep in tournaments, reaching the semi-final in all three slams this year.<\/p>\n
But with the rise of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, there is much debate over whether Djokovic, the most successful male player of all time, will ever win another slam.<\/p>\n
Djokovic<\/strong><\/a> himself has suggested his body moves a little slower but the 38-year-old has been told that his inability to win is in his head, not his body.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom my opinion, is only here,\u201d Patrick Mouratoglou said whilst pointing to his head on the All\u00a0on the Table podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cOnly because the guy wins three grand slams and in the final of the fourth, three months later, the guy is nowhere. It\u2019s impossible.<\/p>\n \u201cHe didn\u2019t lose his tennis he\u2019s just realised that he would be the best of all time because Rafa [Nadal] was out.<\/p>\n Djokovic surpassed Nadal for the record number of slams won after his victory at the 2023 French Open. Since then, Djokovic has won just one more slam as well as the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know the thing he was fighting for 15 years, suddenly there is no more goal,\u201d\u00a0Mouratoglou continued. \u201cSo I think he completely lost the motivation, which is easy to understand. It\u2019s normal.<\/p>\n \u201cHe got motivated again just for the Olympics, and then he was a beast at the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON T365<\/strong> Mouratoglou did suggest that the one motivation Djokovic has left is to show he can still mix it with the top of the game, as seen in his match at Roland Garros against Sinner.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if you saw his match against Sinner at Roland Garros but I felt he was more in demonstration mode than really wanting to win. I exaggerate a little<\/p>\n \u201cIf he really wanted to win, I feel he would have won. That\u2019s crazy, but he\u2019s such an unbelievable competitor, I think he would have won.<\/p>\n \u201cBut he just wanted to feel I can beat, I can potentially beat those guys. They\u2019re not miles away from me. And I want to, I want to enjoy the moment. I want the crowd to like me. I want to do a nice press conference after. I exaggerate but I felt this the whole match.\u201d<\/p>\n Read next:\u00a0Jannik Sinner\u2019s coach in retirement decision U-turn as 2026 plans revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post Novak Djokovic\u2019s will to win questioned in \u2018no more goal\u2019 assessment<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novak Djokovic has been told that it is his mentality, not his physicality, that will prevent him from winning a 25th Grand Slam. The Serbian is undoubtedly towards the end of his career but still continues to go deep in tournaments, reaching the semi-final in all three slams this year. But with the rise of […]<\/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-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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