{"id":177318,"date":"2025-06-12T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177318\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:07:11","slug":"jimmy-connors-responds-when-asked-if-he-believes-novak-djokovic-can-win-wimbledon-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177318\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Connors responds when asked if he believes Novak Djokovic can win Wimbledon this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Novak Djokovic is still in search of Wimbledon history as he looks to equal Roger Federer\u2019s haul of titles at the All England Club before he calls time on his career. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Djokovic hinted at retirement at the French Open<\/a>, waving goodbye to Court Philippe-Chatrier after he was beaten in the semi-final at Roland Garros<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A run to the last four in Paris did offer hope that Djokovic<\/a> can get his hands on one final major before the curtain comes down on his glittering singles career. <\/p>\n

He ran into a formidable Jannik Sinner<\/a> in the semis, but his win over Alexander Zverev<\/a> in the quarter-final was a particularly impressive showing. <\/p>\n

Wimbledon<\/a> has been a happy hunting ground for Djokovic throughout his career and it\u2019s good for this year\u2019s event that he appears to be playing some of the best tennis he\u2019s managed for some time. <\/p>\n

\"2025Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesJimmy Connors suggests whether Novak Djokovic can win Wimbledon<\/p>\n

It does feel like a really strange question when having the audacity to debate whether or not such an icon of the game can win a tournament that he\u2019s won seven times. <\/p>\n

But, that\u2019s where we are and ahead of crowds gathering at SW19, the legendary Jimmy Connors<\/a> has been discussing Djokovic\u2019s hopes of success at Wimbledon. <\/p>\n

When asked whether or not Djokovic can lift the title, Connors, who won Wimbledon twice, delivered an emphatic response. <\/p>\n

He said on the Advantage Connors<\/a> podcast: \u201cSure? Why not? His success on all the Grand Slam surfaces has been pretty amazing, let\u2019s face it. Going in, I am sure he would have loved to have got to the final there and beaten Sinner and had that confidence flowing to his game.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I keep telling you, that getting older and playing against these young kids is no easy task, especially in these three out of five set matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the one that you win 6-4 in the fifth or 7-5 in the fourth set. It\u2019s the ones that follow that break you down and wear you out to where you get to the quarter finals or the semi finals and that is where you are supposed to be starting to play your best and getting on a roll, not fighting fatigue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just happens to every athlete. You can\u2019t beat it. Because the athletes, when you get older, your competition is younger and when they come in and want to make their name like Sinner and Alcaraz, they want to use you, the older guy, as their stepping stone.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of these guys \u2013 to beat Novak and to be able to tell your kids that I beat Djokovic at Wimbledon, that\u2019s big!\u201d<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic stats in 2025<\/p>\n

Djokovic lifting the title at Wimbledon would likely be popular even in the eyes of Roger Federer supporters. <\/p>\n

Everyone has their favourite players when it comes to the big three, but it\u2019s hard to deny that Djokovic still reaching the last four of Grand Slam events at 38 is pretty remarkable. <\/p>\n

Djokovic has been indifferent to this point in 2025, but the hope will be that he\u2019s now put his blip behind him and he can start to genuinely challenge for Grand Slam title number 25 again. <\/p>\n

\"NovakNovak Djokovic\u2019s stats 2025<\/p>\n

Djokovic will likely have to overcome at least one of Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz if he\u2019s to win Wimbledon for a record-equalling eighth time. <\/p>\n

Last year, he battled a knee injury and still reached the final after surgery, losing to an unstoppable Alcaraz in the showpiece match. <\/p>\n

Djokovic looks to be fit and healthy for the first time in months at the moment and that in itself makes him a dangerous entity in the race to win the 2025 Wimbledon crown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic is still in search of Wimbledon history as he looks to equal Roger Federer\u2019s haul of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4294,4295,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-177318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-novak-djokovic","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114668191446468019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177318","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=177318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}