The tennis season is simply too lengthy in its present state and needs to be higher organized sooner or later, reckons Novak Djokovic.
Chatting with 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 once.
The 22-time Grand Slam champion additionally identified that everybody is taking part in just about each main match lately, noting that the competitors was very excessive, albeit unsustainable in its present state. Having all the time 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. You need to be very athletic. You need to be an all-around, all-surface participant with the intention to be No. 1 on the earth. These days everyone seems to be taking part in just about each large match, so the competitors could be very, very excessive.”
“Season is lengthy. For me it is too lengthy, for my part. I’ve been saying that fairly a while – lately after I’m a bit older than I used to be 10 years in the past,” Djokovic mentioned.
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 one of the watched sports activities on the earth, Djokovic admitted that there was a must market it higher than is at present being carried out.
“I simply really feel like we are able to reorganize our season in a greater manner. It is a bit of bit sophisticated. It is one other topic. There’s too many pursuits, governing our bodies in tennis that determine on the calendar. Total I feel tennis is in a superb place, however we should use the potential and the worldwide attain that we have now.”
“We’re not utilizing that potential to its most in any respect. We’re one of the international sports activities watched all over the world, over a billion folks watching. I really feel like we collectively should do a greater job in selling the tennis. It is a extremely popular, historic sport. Advertising-wise and utilizing, so to say, potential commercially is just not as near all the opposite international sports activities,” he mentioned.
“The whole lot is evolving, all the things is bettering” – Novak Djokovic on the evolution of tennis
Novak Djokovic attributed know-how as the principle motive for the fast evolution of tennis in recent times — a attribute he attributed to all sports activities on the whole. 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 feel it’s the case with all of the sports activities. It is type of a logical, I might say, truth about life. The whole lot is evolving, all the things is bettering. It needs to be that manner. You have got the know-how that’s actually completely different.”
“Tennis not so a few years in the past was performed with a wood racquet. You’ve got had an introduction of so many extremely enduring however but very gentle supplies that can help you swing faster, to have extra management. That is know-how,” Djokovic mentioned.