Two years ago, Novak Djokovic was one win from the uber-rare calendar-year Grand Slam. On Sunday, he gets a chance at revenge.
NEW YORK — Shortly after getting past upstart American Ben Shelton on Friday in the U.S. Open semifinals, clinching a spot in a Grand Slam final for the fourth time this year, 36-year-old Novak Djokovic did, in fact, admit that he’s not going to play forever.“I don’t want to even consider leaving tennis or thinking about an end if I’m still at the top of the game,” he said. “I just don’t see a reason for that.
That’s right, it’s Djokovic vs. Medvedev, not Djokovic vs. Carlos Alcaraz, the defending U.S. Open champion and reigning king of Wimbledon. The widely anticipated final matchup of the top two seeds here did not materialize after Alcaraz was overwhelmed later Friday by the crafty and precise Medvedev, 7-6 , 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
Instead of the latest chapter of the Djokovic-Alcaraz rivalry that has become the dominant conflict in men’s tennis, Sunday will be a rematch of the 2021 U.S. Open final — the last time Djokovic played here after missing the 2022 tournament because of the U.S. policy at the time barring foreign visitors who weren’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
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