Novak Djokovic spoke with brutal honesty about his physical condition after overcoming an injury scare to claim a four-set victory over Cameron Norrie at the 2025 US Open.<\/p>\n
The 24-time Grand Slam champion prevailed 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-3 against 35th-ranked Norrie in the third round of the US Open<\/a>\u00a0after two hours and 49 minutes in Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n Djokovic<\/a> left the court when leading 5-4 in the first set for a medical timeout due to a back issue that was causing him visible discomfort. The Serbian also received treatment early in the second set.<\/p>\n After seeing a 3-1 tiebreak lead slip away to lose the second set, Djokovic was broken in the opening game of the third set, but he responded by winning 12 of the next 16 games to seal his progress to the last 16.<\/p>\n The 38-year-old also struggled physically at times in his first two matches in New York and admitted after his second round win over Zachary Svajda that he \u201cdidn\u2019t feel that great.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Following his win against Norrie, Djokovic did not hide his concern about his body in a candid interview with\u00a0ESPN.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, honestly I am concerned. You know, nowadays [I am] more concerned than I have ever been,\u201d said the four-time US Open champion.<\/p>\n \u201cEven though I really am meticulous with the care for my body and I put in a lot of hours on and off the court to make sure that my body is fit and recovered well.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic credits \u2018divine intervention\u2019 for one of his biggest career victories<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic makes admission about his records as he offers advice to younger generation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBut you know, age is\u2026 you can\u2019t fight it. So things are different. I have to obviously adjust myself the way I approach things training.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes I don\u2019t train between matches because with my team when I have this discussion, we think that long term is better and that recovery is more important than hitting some balls in the court.<\/p>\n \u201cSo maybe that\u2019s going to be the case tomorrow. We have to still discuss that and just focus on recovery and get ready for next one.\u201d<\/p>\n The world No 7 also addressed how long he spends on recovery in between matches.<\/p>\n \u201cActually probably even more when I was younger; it\u2019s just in order to keep up with the youngsters I just have to put an extra, extra hour, extra few hours every day,\u201d Djokovic explained.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether it\u2019s table work, whether it\u2019s recovery from using different wellness machines or good sleep, nutrition, obviously all of it, all of it comes into equation and all of it matters when you go deeper in the tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cThe young guys, they come in fresh and I come with a half tank empty in a sense and so I\u2019m going to try to change that for this tournament. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s going to be possible.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, it\u2019s very unpredictable how the body is going to respond. But one thing is for sure, I\u2019m always going to give my very best the last drop of energy to make sure that I go as deep as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n Djokovic will face world No 144 Jan-Lennard Stuff in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Alexander Zverev tactic criticised by US Open rival as Novak Djokovic is also called out<\/a> The post Novak Djokovic admits he is \u2018more concerned than I have ever been\u2019 after US Open injury scare<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novak Djokovic spoke with brutal honesty about his physical condition after overcoming an injury scare to claim a four-set victory over Cameron Norrie at the 2025 US Open. The 24-time Grand Slam champion prevailed 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-3 against 35th-ranked Norrie in the third round of the US Open\u00a0after two hours and 49 minutes in […]<\/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-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Novak Djokovic News<\/h2>\n
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