After profitable the gold medal on the Paris Olympic Video games 2024, Novak Djokovic accomplished the Profession Golden Slam, profitable the final title that was not but in his unimaginable assortment of trophies.
Proper on the finish of the Olympics, his father Srdjan turned to his son and tried to push him to retire, however Nole, as he defined in an interview with GQ Italia, has no intention of giving tennis a farewell.
“I don’t know if he’ll be happy for me to reveal it. But I’ll say it anyway. It all starts with my father. He’s been trying to retire me for a while now, but without being intrusive. He respects my decision to continue. And obviously he understands why I don’t want to stop, but it’s as if he’s saying: What else do you want to prove?
He knows the amount and intensity of pressure and tension in the environment. Not to mention the stress that affects my health, my body and, consequently, everyone around me, including him. That’s why he advised me: My son, start thinking about a way to end this story,” he defined.
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The Serbian champion then revealed among the causes that would push him in direction of a special path.
“I keep thinking about how and when I want to finish. No, I take it all back. I think more about how than when. As for when, I don’t think about it that intensely yet. How would I like to finish? I guess if I start losing too many times, feeling a bigger gap with my opponents and having more difficulty overcoming the real obstacles in the Slams, then I would probably finish.
But for now, I’m fine and I’m continuing to move forward. “Tennis remains to be my greatest megaphone to the world. Yeah, I imply, should you have a look at it simply from the angle of finishing the objectives and enhancing my sport, then yeah, I feel I’ve accomplished tennis!” he added.
The 24 times Slam champion still believes he can fight against the new generation.
“Whether or not publicly or privately, lots of people have advised me that they assume it is higher to stop while you’re at your peak, and I perceive that, do not get me fallacious, I perceive that. But when I’m nonetheless bodily able to competing and I really feel I can beat the very best gamers on this planet on the Slams, why ought to I cease now?” he analyzed with nice honesty.
