{"id":202127,"date":"2025-09-05T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202127\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:05:12","slug":"us-open-2025-novak-djokovic-planning-to-mess-up-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-dominance-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202127\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2025: Novak Djokovic planning to &#8216;mess up&#8217; Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner dominance in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner, 24, and Alcaraz, 22, have carved up the past seven Grand Slams between them, with nobody else winning a major since Djokovic at the 2023 US Open.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Going into the final major of the year, few predicted Djokovic &#8211; or anyone &#8211; could prevent Sinner and Alcaraz from completing another calendar sweep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But seventh seed Djokovic and Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime, competing in his second Grand Slam semi-final, are the only two left standing in their way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Djokovic might still possess an extraordinary talent, pedigree and will to win but, as age catches him up, he no longer has the vitality he once did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Physical issues have been apparent in New York, although he has always found a way to win.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to get easier, I tell you that,&#8221; Djokovic said after Tuesday&#8217;s quarter-final win over Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The next couple of days is really key for me to get my body in shape and ready to battle five sets if it&#8217;s needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner, 24, and Alcaraz, 22, have carved up the past seven Grand Slams between them, with nobody else&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-202127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115151367309755008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}