Djokovic on his exclusion from the Australian Open: “It is not the beginning of the end”

“I was shocked by my performance, in a bad way. I didn't do many things right in the first two sets, and it was one of my worst matches in a Grand Slam. It's not a nice feeling to play like that, but at the same time he deserves praise because he did everything better than me.” I tried and fought and raised my level in the third set and saved a match point and got a good tiebreak, but again in the fourth set I lost a very bad match as I led 40-0. In general my appearance was not good. I was not close to my best level of tennis throughout the tournament. “Some of the matches, maybe the ones Mannarino played in, were good, but most of the matches I didn't play as well as I play here in Australia. So in a way it surprised me. I didn't expect to play that bad in the first two sets, but on the other hand I didn't feel like I was up to it. My nature throughout the entire tournament. “The semi-finals are a good result, of course, but I always expect the best from myself and that was not supposed to happen today,” he said at the start. “I still have high expectations for the rest of the Grand Slams and the Olympics,” he said. We Just at the beginning of the year. It's not what I'm used to because I usually start my seasons with a Grand Slam, and I've never lost in a final or semi-final in Australian Open ChampionshipSo things are different this year, but we'll see. In this tournament I did not play as I expected, but that does not necessarily mean that it is the beginning of the end. We'll see what happens in the rest of the season.”

Noll also spoke about June's Roland Garros tournament“We are still a long way off. We have to see how the players will play in a few months, especially on clay, which is a completely different situation. Some players will have better odds than others. Of course, if Nadal is there, he will be the favourite, without a doubt.” “Even though he hasn't played much, he's the only player at Roland Garros. Then of course Al Karat, Shiner all the top-ranked players, you can see who's in the top five to 10 and any of them can win it. But we're far away, we'll see.”

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