Novak Djokovic has his sights set on one main purpose on the Nitto ATP Finals: ending as ATP 12 months-Finish No. 1 offered by Pepperstone for the record-extending eighth time.
“For me, the most important purpose proper now’s to finish the season because the No. 1 participant on the earth, so hopefully I can clinch it. I would like one win, so hopefully that occurs,” Djokovic instructed ATP Media on Friday in Turin. “After which after all, I’d like to win the match as effectively. However that is the purpose after which let’s examine what occurs afterwards.”
Ought to Djokovic win one match or Carlos Alcaraz lose one match on the season finale, the Serbian will earn the supreme honour within the sport. He final completed year-end No. 1 in 2021.
Djokovic could have a possibility to manage his personal destiny on Sunday night when he begins his match in opposition to Holger Rune. The pair performed only one week in the past within the Rolex Paris Masters, the place Djokovic gained the quarter-final in almost three hours of scintillating tennis.
“Holger has his debut within the [Nitto ATP] Finals. Clearly, together with [Carlos] Alcaraz, they’re the identical era, one of many leaders of the Subsequent Gen and possibly one of many gamers that can carry the tennis within the decade to return,” Djokovic mentioned. “We’re going to see plenty of him I am positive sooner or later. He is bought Boris Becker, the legend of the sport in his nook now and he is been enhancing himself as effectively. Each time we face one another, it is a shut match, so I will most likely should anticipate that one once more.”
The 36-year-old will take confidence figuring out he performed effectively on the Pala Alpitour one yr in the past, when he lifted the Nitto ATP Finals trophy on the venue for the primary time.
“I had the proper rating. Most of my matches, 4 of 5 I gained straight units. That is the third time we’re right here in Torino, there are I feel a pair hundred metres, nearly 300 metres [of] altitude, and perhaps the followers can not really feel it, however we will really feel it on the courtroom,” Djokovic mentioned. “The ball flies by means of the air, the situations are performed completely different. So it takes some days to actually regulate. However it’s pretty. Pretty area, nice to be a part of this occasion once more and it is an excellent attendance.
“Individuals are actually obsessed with tennis and sport usually in Italy, with the Roma Internazionali match and right here in Torino now having a practice of Nitto [ATP] Finals performed right here within the metropolis. It is nice. I am actually wanting ahead and I am excited to carry out.”
Djokovic is pushed by extra than simply tangible accomplishments, he defined.
“I additionally love competing, I like the game. That is my biggest motivation actually, as a result of I’ve made plenty of data, I’ve damaged plenty of data and it is nice,” Djokovic mentioned. “However even when I go away skilled tennis now and replicate on the whole lot I’ve executed, I may be extraordinarily, extraordinarily glad. So I haven’t got a strain to maintain on competing, however I nonetheless have want and nonetheless have the extent.
“I’m taking part in at a really excessive degree, so data are there clearly as an enormous inspiration as effectively, little doubt, and historical past of the game. I nonetheless wish to create my very own historical past and historical past of tennis and see how far I can go.”
That pursuit will start this week in Turin, the place the 36-year-old leads Inexperienced Group alongside Jannik Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Rune. He cherishes the chance to compete in opposition to the perfect gamers on the earth.
“It is nice. I am once more, honoured to be a part of this occasion. It is the top of ATP Tour. Apart from Slams, that is the most important match we have now within the sport. And the perfect eight gamers on the earth labored very exhausting your complete yr. All of the gamers who qualify for this occasion, it is an excellent privilege,” Djokovic mentioned. “It is the one match that basically has the group format. So even for those who lose a match or two, you possibly can nonetheless qualify for the semis. So I feel that removes somewhat little bit of strain of shedding a match.
“However nonetheless, it is advisable to be at your greatest each single match as a result of each single match is performed on the high quality of most likely finals of the Masters 1000 occasions.”
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