The tennis season is just too lengthy in its present state and needs to be higher organized sooner or later, reckons Novak Djokovic.
Talking to the press after his 6-2, 6-3 win over Tallon Griekspoor within the second spherical of the Dubai Tennis Championships, the World No. 1 touched on the evolution of tennis, opining that it has develop into rather more bodily than it was.
The 22-time Grand Slam champion additionally identified that everybody is taking part in just about each main event today, noting that the competitors was very excessive, albeit unsustainable in its present state. Having at all times maintained that the tennis calendar was far too rigorous on gamers’ our bodies, the 35-year-old has solely develop into extra agency in that opinion with age.
“I do agree it has develop into extra bodily by way of working, sliding. It’s a must to be very athletic. It’s a must to be an all-around, all-surface participant in an effort to be No. 1 on the earth. These days everyone seems to be taking part in just about each large event, so the competitors could be very, very excessive.”
“Season is lengthy. For me it is too lengthy, in my view. I’ve been saying that fairly a while – today after I’m a bit older than I used to be 10 years in the past,” Djokovic stated.
Nonetheless, the Serb is just not so certain that reorganization will happen quickly, seeing as there are far too many governing our bodies and conflicting pursuits within the sport. However with tennis being some of the watched sports activities on the earth, Djokovic admitted that there was a must advertise higher than is at the moment being completed.
“I simply really feel like we are able to reorganize our season in a greater means. It is a little bit bit difficult. It is one other topic. There’s too many pursuits, governing our bodies in tennis that determine on the calendar. Total I believe tennis is in place, however we should use the potential and the worldwide attain that we’ve.”
“We’re not utilizing that potential to its most in any respect. We’re some of the international sports activities watched around the globe, over a billion individuals watching. I really feel like we collectively should do a greater job in selling the tennis. It is a very fashionable, historic sport. Advertising-wise and utilizing, so to say, potential commercially is just not as near all the opposite international sports activities,” he stated.
“The whole lot is evolving, the whole lot is bettering” – Novak Djokovic on the evolution of tennis
Novak Djokovic attributed know-how as the principle cause for the fast evolution of tennis in recent times — a attribute he attributed to all sports activities basically. The Serb is of the opinion that technological adjustments, such because the modernisation of the racquet, have helped tennis transition into a way more fast-paced gamestyle than earlier than.
“I believe it’s the case with all of the sports activities. It is form of a logical, I’d say, truth about life. The whole lot is evolving, the whole lot is bettering. It must be that means. You could have the know-how that’s actually completely different.”
“Tennis not so a few years in the past was performed with a wood racquet. You have had an introduction of so many extremely enduring however but very gentle supplies that mean you can swing faster, to have extra management. That is know-how,” Djokovic stated.
