“Well, I’m 29. I would imagine if I’m lucky I’d be playing at this level for three, four more years, max, I would think”, he told a news conference when asked about his prospects of achieving more success.
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“It’s not easy to do that”.
The beneficiary of both of those Djokovic slip-ups was Andy Murray, who is going off at +180 to win the US Open on the tennis betting lines.
“But sometimes the time is what you need as an athlete, and because the US Open is around the corner, I don’t have too much time”. It’s a slightly different mentality to maybe when you’re younger and you feel like you have a bit more time on your side.
“She’s a big fighter”, Williams said.
“Tennis isn’t the most important thing in my life anymore”, Murray said.
Djokovic admitted that he had been suffering with his wrist injury for almost a month and was having intensive treatment in the hope of being “as close to 100 per cent as possible during the course of this tournament, at least for the beginning of it”.
“The “Big Four”, as you say, are getting older”. It’s true that Andy and Novak today are creating distance from the rest.
“I got injured, but before the injury I was third in the race (for the Tour finals) and not very far from No. 2”. “I mean, to have the chance, of course that means a lot, but you have to play like a whole year to get the chance”.
“I feel the discussion is much louder a little bit, but because also there is more movement”, Muguruza said. That’s why I will not thinking too much.
The draws at Flushing Meadows for the top two men, who are seeded to meet in the final, could hardly be a greater contrast.
Cape Town – A nagging shoulder injury could upset Serena Williams’ history-making bid at this year’s US Open.
With a seventh US Open triumph she can break Graf’s record, and continue her march toward Australian Margaret Court’s all-time mark of 24 Grand Slam titles.
Williams’s bid to retain her Olympic singles title ended in Rio de Janeiro this month when she was sent crashing out of the third round by Elina Svitolina.
Williams was clearly hindered by the shoulder injury that had forced her out of the Montreal WTA tournament as she served up eight double faults and 37 unforced errors in the straight-set defeat.
The 28-year-old German, who won her first grand-slam title in Melbourne at the start of the year, lacked belief in the early part of her career.
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Williams could also face former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic, former U.S. Open champ Samantha Stosur and Romanian star Simona Halep, the fifth seed, to reach the semifinals. I played her I think in the semis I think before.
