Alone at the top of tennis. Barely scratched by the defeat against Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon at the start of the summer, Novak Djokovic resumed his bulldozing march started in Melbourne at the start of the year, then a little later at Roland-Garros. By easily overcoming Daniil Medvedev (6-3, 7-6, 6-3), the Serb equaled Margeret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam titles. And warns: the sky is the limit.
“For the future, I am not setting myself a quantified objective on the number of Grand Slams that I want to win before the end of my career. They will remain my priority tournaments and that will not change next season, nor the seasons that follow as long as I am strong. » A planned obsolescence which should arrive within “23 or 24 years”, burst out laughing Nole, whose joke seems almost realistic given its longevity.
Djoko started thinking about records three years ago
If he now no longer hides his interest in this irresistible race for records, the last thing he can hold on to now that his historic rivals are out of commission, Djokovic admits to having only focused on it very recently. “To be honest, I never thought too much about the number of weeks as number 1 or the record number of Grand Slam titles until maybe three years ago. That’s when I realized that I wasn’t that far from the record number 1 weeks and that I had a chance of reaching the record Grand Slam titles if I stayed healthy and continued to play well. I started to believe that I would succeed. History will have vindicated his faith in himself.