Roger Federer Novak Djokovic Pete Sampras Jimmy Connors Atp Tour Italy Usa Australia London county Miami India Kazakhstan Israel Rome county Wells Tel Aviv Astana tennis on Roger Federer Novak Djokovic Pete Sampras Jimmy Connors Atp Tour Italy Usa Australia London county Miami India Kazakhstan Israel Rome county Wells Tel Aviv Astana

'Super-pumped' Djokovic ending troubled year on a high

news24.com

Novak Djokovic believes his prolonged but self-inflicted absences in 2022 make him even more "super-pumped and motivated" to finish a year which started with the ignominy of deportation from Australia on a high.The 35-year-old swept to back-to-back titles when he comfortably defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 in the Astana final on Sunday, a week after securing the Tel Aviv trophy."I could not ask for a better restart of the season.

I'm super-pumped and motivated to end the season as well as I have done these past couple of weeks," said the former world number one.Djokovic now has four titles from just 10 events this season following victories in Rome and at Wimbledon.

His win in the Italian capital in May gave him a 38th Masters; his Wimbledon triumph in July then equalled Pete Sampras's mark of seven at the All England Club and took him to 21 Grand Slams.Only Rafael Nadal, with 22, has more men's majors.All this in a year which saw him booted out of Melbourne and banned from travelling to North America over his continued refusal to be vaccinated.With the exception of the Laver Cup in London, which doubled up as Roger Federer's farewell, Djokovic didn't play for the best part of three months after Wimbledon.His "restart" in Israel came 16 years after he last played in the country.Djokovic's determination not to waver over his vaccination stance meant he missed two of the year's four Slams, at the Australian and US Opens, and four of eight Masters in Indian Wells, Miami, Montreal and Cincinnati.However, his win in Kazakhstan on Sunday allowed him to book a place in the ATP Finals for a 15th time - only Federer (18) and Jimmy Connors and Nadal (16 each) have reached the season-ending showpiece on more occasions.When the

Related News
SYDNEY: Nine-times champion Novak Djokovic says there are "positive signs" that his three-year ban on entering Australia will be waived so he can play at the next Australian Open in January.
SYDNEY : Nine-times champion Novak Djokovic says there are "positive signs" that his three-year ban on entering Australia will be waived so he can play at the next Australian Open in January.
Tennis Australia has said it will leave the nation's government to determine whether or not former world number one Novak Djokovic can enter the country ahead of January’s Australian Open.
Russians and Belarusians will be able to compete as neutrals when the Australian Open gets underway in January. Tennis authorities banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competitions after Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, but were still able to compete in ATP and WTA Tour events. Ad Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley says athletes from both nations will be able to compete in the 2023 Grand Slam which gets underway in Melbourne on January 16th.

Latest News

Change privacy settings
This page might use cookies if your analytics vendor requires them.