Novak Djokovic needs all of it. The most effective tennis participant who ever wielded a racket to this point arrived on Saturday to say a powerful victory on the Indian Wells Masters 1000, the primary match of the class within the calendar and that he had not performed since 2019, between the pandemic and a vaccine in opposition to COVID-19.
Novak Djokovic had not performed for 5 years however made it appear to be he performed yesterday
Djokovic is poised to get a brand new document within the California desert. The six titles would break the all-time excessive of 5 that he at present shares with Roger Federer.
The Serb, who defeated Alexandar Vukic 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, has now reached 400 Masters 1000 victories, the one different participant to have greater than him is Rafael Nada with 406. A document that the Mallorcan might lose after they meet in simply two weeks in Miami.
The 24-time main champion will face within the third spherical of Indian Wells the Italian ‘fortunate loser’ as some name Luca Nardi, who defeated the Chinese language Zhang, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. The tennis participant from Belgrade, who turns 37 on Could 22, lives an everlasting youth: “It has been 5 years since I final performed right here and it looks like yesterday,” he claimed.
At this level, Novak Djokovic has pores and skin within the recreation and he is getting ready, like when he traveled to the Coachella Valley every week earlier (he was on the aircraft with Nadal on Thursday, February 22) to get used to the taking part in floor and the balls.
He had time to play soccer with the opposite tennis gamers on the pure grass garden reserved for the professionals on the Tennis Backyard and share a charity occasion with Charlize Theron herself.
