By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday August 20, 2023
23-time Novak Djokovic has made a behavior of recognizing – and overcoming – challenges over the course of his legendary profession. For years he goal Big Three brethren Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, and finally overcame each on the high of the Grand Slam totem pole.
Today he casts his look towards era subsequent, and the rising phenom Carlos Alcaraz.
On Sunday Djokovic will battle Alcaraz for the fourth time, and the third time within the final three months, for the title on the Western and Southern Open. Djokovic says going through the World No.1 is strictly the preparation he wants to arrange for the 2023 US Open.
🎙️ Djokovic, about going through Alcaraz : “It’s the ultimate challenge at the moment, for me.”
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“I guess it’s the ultimate challenge at the moment for me,” he stated on Saturday after edging Alexander Zverev to achieve a file 57th Masters 1000 ultimate. “We faced each other in the last three events. Roland Garros, clay. Wimbledon, grass. Now hard court. It’s going to be the first encounter on a hard court.
Djokovic, who lost to Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final in five sets, owns a 1-2 lifetime record against the 20-year-old from Murcia, Spain.
“It’s a very good test prior to US Open,” he stated. “Obviously different conditions. Here best-of-three, US Open best-of-five. It’s still facing the top, top player of the world now who is in form. It’s the biggest challenge I could get, so I’m looking forward to it. Now it’s the best way to prepare for New York.”
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