Novak Djokovic warns rivals: I do have high ambitions for French Open
In a press conference in the French Open, Novak Djokovic was asked to compare his current feelings to the ones he had in 2016 when he achieved the Career Grand Slam just by triumphing in Paris. "It's still early in the tournament, but, you know, I do have high ambitions for this tournament. As I said before, you know, Grand Slams are the tournaments where I want to play my best, and hopefully, you know, get a chance to fight for the title. I have played finals on several different occasions in Paris, Roland Garros, and had that memorable title in 2016. Since then, you know, a lot has happened. I was absent from the tour six months. I had surgery of elbow and, you know, changed the racquet, and various transformations happen, so to say, in my career. But I have gotten, I feel like, to a place where I was hoping I would get with my game. I worked very hard for it. I think everything started to really function well from Wimbledon last year."
He said, "That was a huge springboard and confidence boost for what was coming up. You know, winning slams is quite a different feeling from anything else, you know. It really puts your name in the history books of the sport, and it just serves as a huge confidence boost, you know, for any other tournament or the rest of the season. So in tennis, we are fortunate to have, so to say, four world championships a year, every season, and they do take a lot of time and you spend, in the best-case scenario, almost three weeks for every tournament because of the training and everything. But it's worth it. These are the biggest events. These are the events that attract a lot of attention from the sports world, generate a lot of attendance, and a lot of people come and support tennis players. These events are bigger than any other tennis player, you know, that has played the game. That's why they have historically been so valuable."
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2WBnaSC
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