Will Novak Djokovic win his 25th Slam at the US Open?

Novak Djokovic’s season was very disappointing until the Paris Olympics, when he realized one of his biggest dreams. The Serbian champion has not won an ATP title this year and is seriously threatened to end 2024 without winning a Grand Slam title.

The former world number 1 has only the US Open to avert this danger, but his prices are up sharply after winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics. In the final against Carlos Alcaraz on the iconic Philippe Chatrier, fans revisited the best version of Nole that had been missing for a long time (perhaps from the 2023 ATP Finals).

The 24-time Grand Slam champion had long dreamed of winning the gold medal for his country, but he had never succeeded in previous editions of the Games. Tokyo 2020 seemed to be his last chance to achieve this goal, but Novak shocked everyone for the umpteenth time.

Djokovic is recharging

The 37-year-old from Belgrade has chosen to miss the Masters 1000 in Montreal and Cincinnati, a risky decision ahead of the US Open. In addition to losing his 1,000 points won in Ohio last year, the Serbian will arrive in New York without any matches played on the hard court.

Novak Djokovic is certainly the greatest tennis player of all time, having broken every record and showing a hunger out of all logic. During a long interview with ‘Tennis Magazin’, Nikola Pilic reflected on Djokovic’s legacy: “Novak, the old master, is simply still a different calibre (to Alcaraz and Sinner). I don’t want to be subjective here, but he has been named World Sportsman of the Year five times.

That is not my subjective opinion, that was decided by independent committees. That speaks for itself and is something very special. Sinner, Alcaraz and others will certainly take over the new generation in one or two years. Novak will be 39 by then, and not everything will be the same as when he was 29. This development is very…