The tennis season is simply too lengthy in its present state and must 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 grow to be rather more bodily than it was.
The 22-time Grand Slam champion additionally identified that everybody is enjoying just about each main event as of late, 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 grow to be extra agency in that opinion with age.
“I do agree it has grow to be extra bodily when it comes to working, sliding. It’s a must to be very athletic. It’s a must to be an all-around, all-surface participant with a purpose to be No. 1 on this planet. enjoying just about each massive 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 – as of late once I’m a bit older than I used to be 10 years in the past,” Djokovic mentioned.
Nevertheless, the Serb will not be so positive 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 one of the vital watched sports activities on this planet, Djokovic admitted that there was a have to put it on the market higher than is presently being accomplished.
“I simply really feel like we will reorganize our season in a greater approach. It is somewhat bit sophisticated. 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 a great 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 one of the vital world sports activities watched around the globe, over a billion folks watching. I really feel like we collectively need to do a greater job in selling the tennis. It is a very talked-about, historic sport. Advertising and marketing-wise and utilizing, so to say, the potential commercially will not be as near all the opposite world sports activities,” he mentioned.
“All the pieces is evolving, every little thing is enhancing” – Novak Djokovic on the evolution of tennis
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Novak Djokovic attributed know-how as the primary motive for the fast evolution of tennis in recent times — a attribute he attributed to all sports activities generally. The Serb is of the opinion that technological adjustments, such because the modernization 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. All the pieces is evolving, every little thing is enhancing. It needs to be that approach. You’ve the know-how that’s actually totally different.”
“Tennis not so a few years in the past was performed with a picket racquet. You’ve got 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 mentioned.
