Why Novak Djokovic complained about the Roland Garros courts

On the press convention after his epic five-set win towards Francisco Cerundolo on the Roland Garros 4th spherical, Novak Djokovic analyzed the situation of his knee damage. An issue already suffered in latest days and which the autumn on the clay floor within the match towards the Argentinian amplified Throughout the match, Djokovic argued on a number of events with the chair umpire and the supervisor, responsible – in line with the Serbian champion – of not highlighting the situations of a court docket bordering on dilapidated. Throughout the match, Djokovic requested to comb the court docket a number of occasions additionally to keep away from placing the tennis gamers’ security in danger.

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Many occasions on the change of court docket, the ATP No.1 joked, at all times satirically underlining the insufficient situations of the court docket.The Belgrade tennis participant stays within the battle for the #1 place within the ATP rating, which he defends from Jannik Sinner’s assault. Tomorrow, Nole will face the Norwegian Casper Ruud, a tennis participant who he has typically crushed in his profession however who just lately defeated him on the ATP Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo. It should be mentioned that, once more within the post-match press convention, Nole made the followers fear, underlining how he isn’t certain of having the ability to play the quarterfinal match.

Djokovic says to the event supervisor that he ‘screwed’ up his knee because of the situation of the court docket, desires them swept extra typically (additionally mentioned the identical when he performed Musetti) 🧱

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No matter whether or not he’s current within the quarterfinal spherical or not, no matter even defending the ATP No.1 spot, Djokovic as soon as once more confirmed extraordinary resilience. Over the course of his profession now we have repeatedly witnessed his historic feats, however one thing epic is going on at Roland Garros 2024 too. First towards Lorenzo Musetti, on the pitch till after 3 am (native time – ed.) and virtually by no means stopping in 4 hours of play. Then bruised and with a knee damage, the Serbian champion beat the Argentine Cerundolo in 5 units and after 4 and a half hours.

After dominating the primary set with a transparent 6-1, the Balkan tennis participant slipped on the court docket after which suffered a knee drawback. Sensational.