United Cup 2024 - Novak Djokovic, diminué par son poignet ? : "Je pense que tout sera ok pour l'Open d'Australie, pour être honnête"

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03/01/2024

Novak Djokovic était l'attraction de la United Cup 2024 mais tout ne s'est pas passé comme prévu. Le Serbe, numéro 1 mondial, avait bien débuté dimanche contre Zhizhen Zhang mais mardi, lors de son deuxième match, il a souffert du poignet face à Jiri Lehecka, au point de ne pas s'aligner en double mixte. Plutôt inquiet en conférence de presse, Djokovic n'a pas rassuré sur le court en étant encore gêné ce mercredi et surtout battu par Alex De Minaur, 6-4, 6-4. A seulement 10 jours de l'Open d'Australie, le numéro 1 mondial est dans une situation complexe... La Serbie est, elle, éliminée. A domicile, survoltée, l'Australie est donc en demies et se met à rêver d'un sacre devant ses fans.

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00:00 Well, I mean congrats to Demi nor you know he was very solid from the beginning just played a great match deserved win

00:06 you know I was not on my level, but

00:09 You know it was just one of these days where you didn't feel your best. I guess on the court and your opponent played very well

00:17 That's that's all I can say you know

00:20 Have I think enough time to get myself in the right shape

00:26 For strain open and that's what matters the most at this point. I think I'll be okay to be honest

00:32 But you know it did have a quite an impact you know

00:36 particularly in the forehand and serve but

00:40 Again, I don't want to be spending too much time talking about it and taking away

00:45 credit of the victory from

00:48 Demi nor I mean he was just very solid and as he always is

00:56 To him to Australian team, and you know it is what it is for us. I guess we move on and for me

01:02 With my thoughts in Melbourne. What was the exchange with exchange with the physio? What was the issue over there?

01:09 well, I mean I

01:11 Asked for the medical timeout, but he said that you you know you can't get the medical timeout

01:16 You have you can only get a changeover if is if the injury is

01:22 already existing he explained

01:26 So I didn't understand really what that means

01:29 But he said that I told him that

01:35 Was improving so that's why he didn't think that I should get a medical timeout, and I said it was improving

01:42 Before the match, but then as the match progressed

01:45 Yesterday and also today particularly it was getting worse, so I needed treatment. He didn't want to give me one so

01:52 that's

01:54 That's that's all there's not much more I can say

01:57 Does

02:01 result like this

02:02 Linger for a little while or it goes out of the mind pretty quickly no no not much to be honest. You know I

02:09 knew that

02:11 Probably not going to be at my hundred percent

02:14 Physically emotionally mentally game-wise

02:20 In the opening week of a season neither did I expect that neither did I want that to be honest

02:25 It's it's all a part of the the build-up

02:28 for a straight open you know so that that's where I want to perform at my best and

02:34 so

02:36 Again, you know it's never nice to lose a match of course

02:40 But you know it's it's not really going to stay with me much

02:45 Your debut at the United Cup can you talk a little bit about the event and playing with the others on the team?

02:52 well

02:54 You know this kind of atmosphere is really unique. You know

02:57 Being in a team with both

03:01 men and women tennis players from your country is

03:05 Something you don't get to experience you either playing Davis Cup or Billie Jean Cup for for women

03:11 And so this is probably the only competition where you can experience that you know

03:15 That mix which is an official

03:17 competition where you get points of course and

03:21 And you get you know ranking points for winning a match etc. So it's it's quite interesting. I mean it's

03:27 Nice to be able to represent your country always an honor and to share the locker room with with others

03:36 of course it's

03:39 At the side at the same time a little bit

03:41 You know draining because you don't have your own routines that you normally do on the individual events so that

03:48 Plays a part as well, but you know you don't play

03:52 Many times this kind of event maybe once a year or something I mean for me

03:56 It's the first time, but I did enjoy it. You know I think it was a really good cool atmosphere, and we you know

04:02 Had fun, and you know that's in the end of the day those kind of memories stay with you

04:08 Stay with you forever

04:11 Never again from the West what's your plans now between now and the Australian Open

04:17 Well, we're just trying to recover first of all

04:20 you know with with the wrist and everything that I've been struggling with last couple of days and

04:26 yeah, just following the the routine of

04:30 Recovery and training and building the form for strain open

04:38 The process is not strange to me. It's not

04:41 Unusual I've been in this kind of situation so many times

04:46 And I know what I need to do along with my team to get myself ready of course

04:50 You never know what can happen. I mean last

04:53 Two or three two years. I've been injured

04:57 Just before Australian Open and managed to win both Australian Opens, and you know sorry less

05:04 Two out of three years so in 21 and 23

05:08 So I hope that I will not be injured this time around you know

05:13 That's that's what we're gonna work on to get my body in the right shape optimal state

05:19 So that I can perform at the high level throughout the hopefully entire strain open

05:24 And you touched on Devin or before and you played him at the last Australian Open

05:29 What have you noticed in his game in terms of the improvement over the past year well?

05:33 I mean look he's one of the quickest players on the on the tour. He takes the ball early

05:38 He's comfortable to come to the net and he's you know basically using his serve well. He's a very all-around player and

05:44 great competitor a great fighter

05:47 And he's going to make you work very hard. You know

05:51 You're not gonna get easy easy wins or easy points

05:58 Yeah, he was trying to take the ball early tonight and be aggressive and every short ball. You know tried to really

06:06 Challenge me, and he did it. He did it well. It was consistent and played a good match

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