MARTIN AVILÉS
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Novak Djokovic It has its natural habitat in Melbourne. He Australian Open is synonymous with (almost) guaranteed success for the all-powerful Serbian tennis player, who has built an insurmountable fort in oceanic territory, where he has emerged as the top winner in the history of this competition with 10 titles, an amount with which he surpassed at the time Roy Emerson y Roger Federer.
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‘No’ has an impressive record of 89 victories and only eight defeats in the last 19 years in the first Grand Slam of the year, in addition to not having any lost final in the Rod Laver Arena. Back in Melbourne, the Belgrade, Serbiawill seek to extend his own record after losing only one set in the 2023 edition, a terrifying fact for the rest of the tour.
As if it were not enough, ‘The Djoker’ will have in its favor that Rafael Nadalwho is a two-time champion of the first major on the calendar, recently withdrew from the competition after being injured in his long-awaited return to the ATP circuit, after suffering a hip injury while playing in Brisbane.
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Without Nadal on the field and Roger Federer removed, Djokovic He is the only former champion who will be seeded in the Australian event. The top Grand Slam winner with 24, is currently at the top of the ATP rankings, followed by Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner y Andrey Rublev, who will try to stop their successful streak.
If a couple of points had gone in before Alcaraz at Wimbledon, Djokovic would enter 2024 as the current champion in the four Grand Slams. And the 2023 of ‘Nole’ was his personal revenge, after his visa was canceled because he faced the health dictatorship imposed during the pandemic by not getting vaccinated against the virus. COVID-19which prevented him from playing in the Australian Open 2022 and he couldn’t play either US Open de 2022 for the same reason.
In fact, Djokovic has won at least one title Grand Slam in nine of the last 10 years, as a sign of his absolute dominance. Additionally, he claimed seven titles in 2023 and beat a different player in each of those championship matches. Therefore, he is the favorite to add another men’s singles title of the Australian Open to its growing collection, which it seeks to nourish like never before has anyone been able to do, earning the Golden Slam with the gold medal in Paris 2024.
2024-01-08 23:32:01
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