“Don’t Foresee Anybody Really Beating Him”: Doubles Legend Backs Novak Djokovic To Go the Distance at Tokyo Olympics 2020

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has been in the form of his life this season. There has been no stopping him in the Grand Slam events, and he has won the first three of them this season. Besides, he has also overtaken archrival, Roger Federer, in holding the top spot in rankings for the most number of weeks. 

Not long ago, Australian doubles legend Todd Woodbridge spoke about the soon to begin Tokyo Olympics 2020. He felt the World No. 1 star Novak Djokovic will have no obstruction in his way to win his first-ever gold medal at the Olympic Games. 

The 50-year-old former doubles Grand Slam champion stated, “Novak sees it as an opportunity to really cement himself as the greatest of all time by potentially winning a Golden Slam. I would have thought his absolute goal was to win the Grand Slam first because he’s been to an Olympics and he has a medal … and that would definitely set him apart from anybody and any other achievement in the men’s game.”

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Novak Djokovic is the man to beat

Besides the Olympic Games, Djokovic has his sights set on winning the final Grand Slam event of the season, the US Open. Although Woodbridge thinks it’s a tedious task, if there is anyone who can do it, then it’s the man from Serbia. 

The nine-time Wimbledon doubles champion further added, “But to try to do the five (events), I think is very ambitious. If there’s anyone who can do that, then it is Novak. He is by far the favorite – it’s about how he recovers mentally and physically from Wimbledon. Given the way he’s trained and the way his routines are, he’ll do that well. I don’t foresee anybody really beating him at this particular point.”

At the moment, Novak is in Tokyo, preparing himself for the Olympic Games. It will be interesting to see how he performs, given his current form. 

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