Novak Djokovic ‘cooking up clones’ as Serbian participant Novak Novakovic will get ranked
Novak Djokovic may quickly discover himself enjoying towards a participant with practically an an identical title within the close to future as one budding Serbian tennis participant continues his rise by means of the rankings. Novak Novakovic might sound like a reputation that has been thrown right into a random generator when choosing out the ‘new Djokovic’, however the teenager is a real participant and has ambitions of forging an expert tennis profession similar to his Wimbledon finalist namesake.
Djokovic, who narrowly missed out on securing his twenty fourth Grand Slam title at Wimbledon after a thrilling five-set defeat to Carlos Alcaraz in the final on Sunday, is extensively thought to be among the best male gamers of all time.
The 36-year-old is a novel athlete in his personal proper as he manages to dash across the court docket at a powerful velocity and return most balls which might be launched his approach. Some would safely predict there’ll by no means be one other participant like him as he heads into the ultimate years of his illustrious profession.
But when it comes to his title, there’s each likelihood Novakovic can stick with it the ‘Novak’ craze sooner or later. The 22-year-old novice participant, who additionally hails from Serbia and at present resides within the United States, is continuous his tennis schooling at South Carolina State University.
Novakovic is steadily making his approach up the ATP ladder, having been not too long ago awarded a spot on the singles and doubles listing for the primary time in his profession.
As of July seventeenth 2023, Novakovic is 1,590th on the earth for doubles and has dropped 5 locations since he first made it onto the listing two weeks in the past, when he was ranked at 1,542nd. In the singles listing, he’s considerably falling down the charts at 1,857th – a pointy decline from when he was 1,706th on June 17.
The teenager has to date banked prize cash to date of £952 ($1,246) by means of his singles and doubles endeavours mixed. That is a drop within the ocean in comparison with Djokovic, who can money in his £1.18m cheque only for reaching the ultimate at SW19, and that takes his whole profession earnings of £131.1m ($172.5m) since turning skilled in 2003.
One Reddit person, @Bmuthaf*****Magic, joked that Djokovic is “cooking up clones in the lab,” whereas @warisverybad predicted Novakovic may very well be the “incoming winner of the next 65 slams.”