Djokovic: "Alcaraz and Sinner are simply too good"

Djokovic lost to Carlos Alcaraz with the maximum score - 6:4, 7:6 (4), 6:2.Novak had a solid season at Grand Slams and four semi-finals, but Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are too strong.&quot;I think you&#39;re right. I lost three out of four Slams in the semi-finals against those two. They&#39;re simply too good, they play at a very high level. I ran out of energy after the second set. I was able to hang with him for two sets, he was able to keep up after that, and I couldn&#39;t. It was the same with Jannik. It&#39;s hard for me to play with them, especially in the finals of Slams,&quot; Djokovic said.It will not be easy in the future, especially in terms of physical fitness.&quot;I&#39;m happy with my level of tennis, but the physicality of everything, you know... After the quarterfinals, I said that I would do my best to prepare my body for as many hours as it takes for the semifinals, but it wasn&#39;t enough. Unfortunately, at this point in my career, that&#39;s something I can&#39;t control. I can do what I&#39;m doing and it will be very difficult for me to beat Sinner and Alcaraz in the future at the slams, it&#39;s difficult in three wins. I&#39;m not giving up on the slams, that&#39;s not it, I&#39;ll continue I am fighting for another final and at least one more trophy. It will be very difficult&quot;. A run to be proud of, @DjokerNole 👏 pic.twitter.com/9tZ0qAbWDk&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2025 Alcaraz has made a lot of progress lately.&quot;Young players are expected to improve. Those two are the best in the world right now. If you don&#39;t improve, something is wrong. You have to improve to keep up with them. Their teams have a very good approach to tennis, training and everything and the results show that. There is no doubt that they are getting better and better every year and that is expected&quot;.Something similar happened to Novak in this match as at Wimbledon against Sinner.&quot;It&#39;s simple, I don&#39;t want to repeat myself, I think I said what really happened today. It&#39;s frustrating when you can&#39;t compete physically, but at the same time it&#39;s something that&#39;s expected. Because of the age and everything. I still enjoy the competition. Today I had great support from the crowd, I&#39;m very grateful to them. I enjoyed it and the love I&#39;m getting all over the world is one of the main reasons why I&#39;m still playing&quot;.He deals a lot with physicality and preparation.&quot;Mostly it all accumulates. Every match something happens that I have to deal with, physically. Overall I ran out of gas. There was no injury that would prevent me from playing, but simply - the fitness level was not enough for Carlos&quot;. Carlos Alcaraz enters a tournament.Carlos Alcaraz reaches the final.For the eighth time in a row. pic.twitter.com/PbkWpjhIbu&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2025 He didn&#39;t want to talk much about the plans.&quot;It&#39;s far, Australia is really far... At this point in my career, I&#39;m not thinking that far. I plan to play in Athens, that&#39;s for sure, but other than that... Big question mark about where I&#39;ll play and if I will&quot;.Novak was asked if he plans to &quot;battle&quot; matches in two sets won and to play only in grand slams in the future.&quot;We&#39;ll see, I have to see it with my team. I have to think about it for sure after this Grand Slam season. I won&#39;t miss the Grand Slams, I still want to play a full Grand Slam season next year, but we&#39;ll see what happens. Slams are slams, they&#39;re key in our sport, but yes... I think more that I have a chance in two-win matches, one-week tournaments or the Masters, which now last two weeks with big breaks in between matches. It could mean more to me in matches against those two&quot;.He further explained the position that he has more chances at the Masters than at the Grand Slams.&quot;I don&#39;t know if you were at Wimbledon, but I think my conference at Wimbledon was closer to retirement than this one. I have more chances in the two sets I won, that&#39;s evident for anyone who knows tennis. They are simply the best in the world and are better in various aspects of the game, and especially the big difference is noticeable in physical fitness. Especially towards the end of the Grand Slam tournament. I played three out of four Grand Slam tournaments against Alcaraz and Sinner, Alcaraz won in the matches which were so intense and I&#39;m forced to be on the edge of physical endurance at the moment. They are both dominant and physically fit. I can be satisfied with the results at the GS tournaments this year, but considering simply my physical condition, body through what&#39;s going on, more than ever in my career, and the guys I have across from me, who are 15 or more years younger than me and at the peak of my career, I can be satisfied because I beat all the other tennis players at the GS except for those two. I want to continue playing, but to what extent and what my schedule will look like, I don&#39;t know. I don&#39;t want to take a position at all that is unchangeable in the context of a long-term plan. I&#39;m tired of planning, I&#39;ll go here, there... I&#39;d rather feel my body and will and see where I&#39;m playing, I told Athens that I&#39;ll play for sure if I&#39;m healthy, everything else is questionable, and the start of next year is Australia. After that, after that.&quot;Alcaraz and Sinner have serious collaborators.&quot;Both have coaches who have won Grand Slams both as players and as coaches. Ferrero and Cahill are top experts in tennis and people who have a lot of experience, how to position yourself, and they certainly learned from us (big 3) both when it comes to the game itself and when it comes to the approach to recovery and managing the schedule. I&#39;m not sure that we played more than them, the schedules are different in relation to the length and duration of the tournament. For us, the masters were 7 days. We played a day for a day, but it all lasted for 7 days and then the second tournament. I think it&#39;s logical to play a full schedule and if I were at their age it would be impossible to achieve everything without being ready for the most important, grand slams.A rivalry we&#39;ll never get tired of rooting for ❤️ pic.twitter.com/N4qn1qyleX&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2025 At which Grand Slam did he have the most chances?&quot;Roland Garros, I would say. Australia and Wimbledon I was injured, here I lacked the fuel to keep up with him. I couldn&#39;t stand his pace and rhythm, he was at a very high level from the first point. I would say RG, but I didn&#39;t have much of a chance. He was better Sinner, I had set balls and opportunities, but it wasn&#39;t as close as I would have liked it to be&quot;.Year after year, Novak in New York has more and more support from the audience.&quot;Absolutely. That&#39;s one of the biggest reasons why I still play and come to tournaments with a great deal of excitement, because in some tournaments where I didn&#39;t necessarily get a lot of support, now I get it. Today was phenomenal, when the score was broken, the stadium was shouting my name and they were trying to lift me up and give me wings to win. I&#39;m grateful for that, it&#39;s a wonderful feeling, really! For most of my career, I had opposite situations where I had to, from that certain fighting attitude and towards the audience, so I draw energy for what&#39;s on the field. I&#39;m tired of that, honestly, it&#39;s enough that I fight against the opponent, I don&#39;t need the audience to exhaust me... It&#39;s better this way&quot;.Novak will not play against Turkey next week in &quot;Chair&quot;.&quot;I would like to play. You know how much I have been available to the national team during my career, it is a huge honor, privilege and pleasure for me, to share the dressing room and the field with above all my friends, even students and pupils. With Viktor who is one of my best friends my whole life. Representing Serbia in that most important team competition is always in circulation for me and what I am looking forward to. How well it will fit in, how well my body will be able to be available and really be the best option compared to others who are there -- Hamad is there, a lot is expected of him, I don&#39;t know. I hope that next year we will be in the World Group where we deserve to be. If we don&#39;t count the duel with Greece last year in &#39;Pionir&#39;, I haven&#39;t played DK in front of the home crowd, I would like to have at least one more opportunity to represent the Serbian team to the audience&quot;.Monica Seles came to New York to watch Djokovic.&quot;We saw each other briefly, she came to the gym before I went out on the court to warm up. She didn&#39;t want to disturb me and take my time, as she says, and I wanted to and I asked her questions. I asked her about the backhand, and she gave me advice on what I needed. She told me that I should try to imagine myself on the court as a younger Djokovic who played freely and to play with my heart. That&#39;s what she told me before the match. She definitely made me has inspired me a lot. I rarely see her, and she is very important in my life and career. It was a great honor to see her today,&quot; concluded Novak.

Djokovic: "Alcaraz and Sinner are simply too good"

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