Novak Djokovic dreams of winning at least one more Grand Slam title before the end of his incredible career, but that milestone has definitely moved away since Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner began dominating the men's tour.
The 38-year-old Serbian has shown that he still has the ability to raise his level in the most important events on the calendar becoming the oldest player ever to reach at least the semifinals in all four Majors in the same year but his runs have been stopped by Sinner (in Paris and London) and Alcaraz (in New York).
Nole can be proud of his current level, considering that he occupies third place in the ATP Race despite a very short schedule, but the feeling is that a legend of his caliber will not settle for a secondary role.
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Nolewon his 100th career title in Geneva
Overtaking Roger Federer and Jimmy Connors in the all-time ranking of titles won may be a more achievable goal for the former world No.1, who clinched his 100th title in Geneva just before Roland Garros. During his last press conference at the US Open, the 24-time Grand Slam champion confessed that he would have a better chance of beating Jannik and Carlitos in best-of-three sets matches due to his current physical shape.
On the latest edition of the 'Nothing Major' podcast, former American star Sam Querrey stated without any hesitation that winning second-tier tournaments is not Novak's real goal: The last three tournaments he played were Roland Garros, Wimbledon, the US Open. If Novak wanted to surpass those guys, he could.
He could go load up with 250s and win them because, as we saw this year, he made the semi-finals of all four majors. So, in major tournaments, hes the third-best player in the world. And his total is, whats he ranked right now? Seven. I think hes generally looked at as the third-best player in the world right now.
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The American also added: He could go sign up for a handful of 250s and could have this year and probably won 10 of them. So, for that reason alone, I dont think those numbers of surpassing Fed and Jimmy Connors are important to him at all.
