By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday May 21, 2024

The Roland-Garros foremost draw kicks off in 5 days, and Novak Djokovic has not arrived on the grounds but. That’s as a result of the World No.1 is in Geneva, the place he'll tackle Yannick Hanfmann in second-round motion on the Geneva Open on Wednesday night.

Djokovic, 12-5 on the season and nonetheless with out an ATP title to his title, says he's in Geneva as a result of he wants matches to really feel proper forward of this 12 months’s French Open.

It's not the everyday warmup for Roland-Garros, however Djokovic believes that this 12 months, given the circumstances, it's the proper preparation.

“The reason why I chose to come and play is because I feel like at this moment, there is no better practice for me than match play,” stated Djokovic, who's bidding for his 1,000th ATP win. “I feel like I need more matches, even if it's one match, two matches, three, four hopefully. It's good for me, because that's the way for me to try to find that kind of form that I need for Roland-Garros.”

The defending champion will bid for his fourth title within the French capital subsequent week, however earlier than he does, he want to add a 99th profession title in Geneva.

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For Djokovic for the time being, it’s all about preparing for the grind of finest of 5 matches, and the 36-year-old feels he’s higher off taking part in a match than merely heading to Paris for apply classes at this level.

It has been a turbulent season for the Grand Slam king. He parted methods with longtime coach Goran Ivanisivec in March, earlier than additionally altering health coaches final month.

Now working in a second stint with health coach Gebhard Gritsch after parting methods with Marco Panichi, Djokovic is putting an emphasis on constructing power and endurance as he bids for a twenty fifth main title.

“In terms of fitness, I've dedicated quite a bit of time with my new fitness coach to build the endurance, to build physical strength and capabilities that I need in order to play a best-of-five Grand Slam on the physically most demanding surface, which is clay," Djokovic said. "So hopefully I'm going to get more than one match here in Geneva, that's the goal and then let's see what happens in Paris.”

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