Serbia’s Novak Djokovic speaks on the press convention after his loss to Jannik Sinner within the Wimbledon 2025 males’s semifinal in London on July 11, 2025.
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Novak Djokovic needed to make this a lot clear after dropping to Jannik Sinner within the Wimbledon semifinals on Friday (July 11, 2025): This was not a farewell efficiency. Djokovic intends to compete once more on the All England Membership.
“I am not planning to complete my Wimbledon profession immediately,” the 38-year-old Djokovic stated. “I am planning to return again undoubtedly — a minimum of yet one more time.”
His 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 defeat at Centre Court docket in opposition to the No. 1-ranked Sinner put an finish to Djokovic’s newest try to tie Roger Federer’s males’s report of eight championships at Wimbledon and to assert an unprecedented twenty fifth Grand Slam title general.
Djokovic was not absolutely in a position to compete at his finest stage, two days after taking what he described as a “nasty” and “awkward” fall within the final sport of his quarterfinal victory.
“I do not wish to discuss in particulars about my damage and simply whine about not managing to play my finest,” Djokovic stated on Friday (July 11, 2025). “I do really feel disenchanted that I simply wasn’t in a position to transfer in addition to I assumed or hoped that I’d.” He was visited by a coach earlier than the third set for therapy on his higher left leg, received the following three video games and was some extent from a 4-0 lead, however misplaced six of the final seven video games.
“All of us noticed, particularly within the third set, that he was a bit injured,” stated Sinner, who will meet No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in Sunday’s ultimate. “He is been in a really troublesome scenario.”
Earlier than this fortnight, Djokovic stated he figured the grass-court event provides him his finest probability at one other main. His most up-to-date got here on the 2023 U.S. Open.
On the subsequent Slam occasion, the 2024 Australian Open, Djokovic misplaced to Sinner. On the French Open a number of months later, Djokovic wanted to withdraw earlier than the quarterfinals as a result of he tore the meniscus in his proper knee and wanted surgical procedure. Then, a month later at Wimbledon, he misplaced to Alcaraz within the ultimate, his sixth consecutive look within the event’s title match — and second straight loss to Alcaraz.
Djokovic exited within the semifinals in any respect three of this season’s majors up to now, quitting due to a torn hamstring after one set in that spherical at Melbourne Park, then dropping to Sinner at Roland-Garros and once more on Friday (July 11, 2025).
When his earliest loss at Wimbledon since 2017 ended, Djokovic picked up his issues and, as he walked towards the locker room, paused to answer a standing ovation with a smile, a wave and a thumbs-up for the gang.
A reporter later requested whether or not Djokovic felt as if he had some unhealthy luck due to the repeated damage points.
“I do not suppose it is unhealthy fortune. It is simply age — the wear and tear and tear of the physique. As a lot as I am taking good care of it, the fact hits me proper now, the final yr and a half, like by no means earlier than, to be sincere,” Djokovic replied, shaking his head. “It is powerful for me to simply accept that, as a result of I really feel like once I’m contemporary, once I’m match, I can nonetheless play actually good tennis. I’ve confirmed that this yr.”
Revealed – July 12, 2025 09:35 am IST
