{"id":7301,"date":"2025-06-07T00:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/novak-djokovic-you-could-have-played-your-last-match-at-the-french-open\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:40:17","slug":"novak-djokovic-you-could-have-played-your-last-match-at-the-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/novak-djokovic-you-could-have-played-your-last-match-at-the-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic &#8211; You could have played your last match at the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Novak Djokovic suggested he may have played in the French Open for the last time after losing top-ranked Janik Sinner in the semi-finals at Roland Garros on Friday, losing 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (3) to top-ranked Janik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old received a huge applause from the crowd stuffed inside the Philippe Chatrier, dropping his bags into court and acknowledging each section of the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, this might have been the last game I&#8217;ve played here, so I don&#8217;t know. So even in the end I was a little more emotional,&#8221; Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if this was a Roland Garros farewell match for me in my career, it was great in terms of vibes and what I got from the crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic shares his grand slam singles record with 24 major titles, and one more is needed to break his bond with Margaret Court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Want to play more, yes, but I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ll be able to play here in 12 months,&#8221; Djokovic said. &#8220;I said it might have been my last match (here), I didn&#8217;t say it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic said he is completely motivated to play Wimbledon and the US Open, but will not commit to any further plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously Wimbledon is next. This is my favorite tournament from my childhood. I&#8217;m going to do everything I can to prepare myself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My best chance could be Wimbledon to win another slam or a faster hard court, perhaps Australia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic suggested he may have played in the French Open for the last time after losing top-ranked Janik Sinner in the semi-finals at Roland Garros on Friday, losing 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (3) to top-ranked Janik Sinner. The 38-year-old received a huge applause from the crowd stuffed inside the Philippe Chatrier, dropping his bags into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[262,151,285,261,32,2198,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-7301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-djokovic","9":"tag-french","10":"tag-match","11":"tag-novak","12":"tag-open","13":"tag-played","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}