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Alla Zakarian

19-10-2018 | 12:56 Tennis
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Novak Djokovic reveals struggling to cope with Grand Slam drought

Novak Djokovic has opened up on a “breakdown” he had to his parents a year ago when he was in the middle of a trophy drought. 'I had this upward kind of spiral and trajectory in my tennis career, in my life, and everything was great,' he began on former athlete Lewis Howes' podcast. 'And then, all of a sudden, I had this period of two-and-half, three years, where I didn’t win a Slam. I was managing to be three/four in the world, but I just struggled a lot. 'And, for me, being No 3 in the world wasn’t enough. I just was not satisfied with that. And I would always go back, and say, "Okay, wait, when I was seven, eight years old, my dream and my life goal was always to be No 1 and win Wimbledon. That’s it. And I need to achieve that, no matter what." 'But then I reached a kind of mentally low point in my career, I think it was after Roland-Garros, one of the four Slams, and I had lost, I was two sets to love up. 'I lost in five sets in quarter-finals against a guy called Jurgen Melzer, he was in the top 10 in the world, very good player, but I had a match and I just lost. 'I just had a breakdown. I remember going to my parents and talking about this and that, and I just cried, and, "I don’t know if this is worth it. I don’t know if I should keep going," and my father was, like, "Toughen up! Toughen up!" You know?' 'I never looked back, ever since that moment,' he added. 'I remember the next tournament was Wimbledon, I probably played finals, and then, after that, I won Davis Cup with my country, with my guys, end of 2010. 'That was one of the highlights of my career. And then, after that, I went into having 43 matches won in a row, and with that streak, I became No 1.' Source-dailymail.co.uk

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