Surprised by his poor performance in the semi-final of the Australian Open, he himself said Novak Djokovicas he stated after the defeat by Yannick Siner.
“Firstly I would like to congratulate Sinner for an amazing match, an amazing tournament so far“, said the top tennis player in the world. “He deserves to be in the final, he was much better than me. Look, I was shocked at my level, in a bad way. In the first two sets I didn’t do many things right. It’s probably one of my worst Grand Slam matches. At least as far as I remember. It doesn’t feel good to play like this. Well done to him, though, for doing everything better than me, in every aspect of the game. I fought, managed to raise my level a bit in the third, saved match points, played a good tiebreak. But in the fourth it was really bad that I lost the game at 1-2 from 40-0, against the air kind of. Overall my tennis was not very good. In these moments you are looking to find peace and at the same time raise yourself and your game. I tried and the world was awesome, fair for both players. That’s it, congrats to Yannick».
As he admitted, his performances in Melbourne were not the best. “To be honest, I didn’t play close to my best tennis throughout the tournament. The match against Mannarino was very good, but the rest was below average compared to how I usually play in Australia. It kind of surprised me, I didn’t expect things to be so bad in the first two sets. On the other hand, I didn’t feel like myself on the court throughout the tournament. You can say the semi-finals is a good result but I expect the best from me, it wasn’t meant to be today“, write down.
Finally, when asked if his age began to affect him, he replied: “To see! I do not know. I have high expectations for the other slams, the Olympics, the tournaments I’ll be playing. It’s only the beginning of the season. It’s not a feeling I’m used to. It was very nice for me to start almost every season with a Grand Slam, having never lost in the Australian Open semi-finals or final. This time it’s different, but let’s see what it is. I didn’t play at the level I expect from myself, but that doesn’t mean it’s the beginning of the end, like some people say. Let’s see what happens in the rest of the season».
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