Former Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander believes that we haven’t seen the last of Novak Djokovic winning Major trophies following the completion of his Olympic dream.
In Paris Djokovic completed a career sweep of the Big Titles, having achieved both the Career Super Slam and Career Golden Masters thanks to his gold medal run.
Wilander feels that Djokovic’s mental acuity is still his greatest asset as he showed by winning Olympic gold on his least favourite surface.
The Swede commended the presumed GOAT for being able to get the job done in Paris at what most feel will be his last Olympics.
However, he added that the Serbian was likely to add one or two Grand Slam titles to his collection.
Wilander believes that young players coming through and winning Grand Slams will only inspire a response from Djokovic and that he will be able to lift himself and claim more Majors.
“I was very excited,” Wilander said of the triumph in Paris according to We Love Tennis.
“I was very surprised that he was able to win the Olympics with the pressure.
“It was his last Olympics and he managed to do it on what is perhaps the surface he likes the least.
“But he is not finished, and I already said it at Wimbledon, I think he will win one, two or even three more Grand Slams.
“And that will give him the energy to keep fighting because he likes the challenge that the young players give him.”
Djokovic has won a record 72 Big Titles, including an all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles, and holds the most weeks at No 1, the most wins over top 5 and top 10-ranked players, has won all major and Masters events and the year-end championships at least twice (which no other player has done), and has a winning head-to-head record over his greatest rivals in one of the strongest eras of tennis.
If Djokovic doesn’t win the US Open this season it will be the first time he has been denied a Grand Slam title in a calendar year since 2017. Prior to that barren campaign he had won at least one Slam title every year for six seasons and has now matched that with his current run.
The reigning Olympic champion has won the US Open four times and he played his very first Grand Slam final in new York, losing to Roger Federer. His first US Open win came in 2011 when he beat Rafael Nadal in four sets. He has reached the championship match at the US Open a record ten times but his six final losses represent a somewhat unwanted record of most losses at that stage.
