{"id":14691,"date":"2025-04-12T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14691\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:48:18","slug":"novak-djokovic-comes-under-fire-as-theres-something-wrong-with-serb-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14691\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic comes under fire as there’s ‘something wrong’ with Serb | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Djokovic made it no secret that he didn\u2019t have high expectations at this week\u2019s Monte-Carlo Masters. The Serb had a quick turnaround after losing in the final of the Miami Open<\/a>, playing his first match on the clay just 10 days later.<\/p>\n

But the two-time former champion in Monaco looked a shell of his usual self when he came out to face Tabilo on Wednesday, struggling to get fired up as the Chilean handed him a 6-3 6-4 defeat.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, Djokovic said it was a \u201chorrible feeling to play this way\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI knew I’m gonna have a tough opponent and I knew I’m gonna probably play pretty bad. But this bad, I didn’t expect.\u201d<\/p>\n

But retired French tennis star Clement wasn\u2019t happy with what he heard and saw from Djokovic, and he believes something could be going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shock, ultimately, is more the manner and the attitude than the loss itself,\u201d he told Eurosport France.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s true that we didn\u2019t feel he was happy on the court, we didn\u2019t feel he was fulfilled. Did he want to? We don\u2019t know. Did he have a problem? We don\u2019t know. But there was certainly something wrong with Novak Djokovic<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it wasn\u2019t simply the fact that his tennis wasn\u2019t in place. He didn\u2019t give the impression, as can often be the case with him when things aren\u2019t going well, of finding solutions and resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Djokovic has already shut down concerns that he was battling an injury<\/a> in the match against Tabilo. The world No. 5 has been struggling with an eye infection<\/a> over the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

He raised more concerns ahead of Wednesday\u2019s match when he was spotted grabbing his arm during a practice session<\/a>, with a member of his team coming over to massage it.<\/p>\n

But, after crashing out of the tournament, Djokovic said: \u201cIt’s all good. Just a minor, minor thing. There\u2019s no injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 24-time Grand Slam champion still has his sights set on the French Open, admitting it was his only target during the clay swing. Djokovic is expected to return to action in Madrid at the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Djokovic made it no secret that he didn\u2019t have high expectations at this week\u2019s Monte-Carlo Masters. The Serb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[10195,4324,4295,79,1068,5838,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-14691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-arnaud-clement","9":"tag-monte-carlo-masters","10":"tag-novak-djokovic","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-tennis-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114326962549629760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}