“When I enter the Centre Court, I guess it just awakens something in me and I’m able to perform at a very high level,” said Djokovic. theSun theSundaily tennis Djokovic Wimbledon
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic takes part in a training session prior to the start of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 2, 2023. AFPPIX: Novak Djokovic brings the curtain up at Wimbledon on Monday as he starts his bid for an eighth title and all-time record equalling 24th Grand Slam triumph.
“When I enter the Centre Court, I guess it just awakens something in me and I’m able to perform at a very high level,“ said Djokovic.Winning a men's record 23rd major in Paris put him one behind Margaret Court's all-time mark of 24.This year's Wimbledon will be the first since 1998 to feature neither eight-time winner Roger Federer, now retired, nor the injured Rafael Nadal.
Kyrgios underwent surgery on his left knee earlier this year and has only played one match all season.Women's world number one Iga Swiatek faces China's 114th-ranked Zhu Lin, confident that she has shaken off the effects of food poisoning she suffered at the Bod Hamburg grass-court event last week. Svitolina said she feels no bitterness towards the All England Club after they decided to lift last year's ban on Russian and Belarusian players.
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