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Australian Open: Novak Djokovic admits his elbow not yet 100 per cent

January 13, 2018 21:16·
Johanna Konta

Johanna Konta

But the Spanish star said Saturday he feels good and his motivation remains strong.

With Andy Murray injured, Novak Djokovic returning after a six-month lay-off and Rafael Nadal short of fitness, everything points towards Roger Federer this year in Melbourne. If he gets through this minefield, then a 20th Grand Slam title might just suffice.

Yet he is unfazed and raring to go as seeks to go one better than past year when he lost an epic Melbourne Park final to Roger Federer.

Dimitrov said he's a better player than he was when he lost the semifinal here past year to Nadal, and Zverev is aiming to go deep into the second week for the first time at a major. I'm not going to say quarter-finals, semi-finals, anything like that.

"I feel my biggest expectation is from myself", Venus Williams said, dismissing any notion that age or expectations will weigh heavily on her.

"I feel that I had a good week-and-a-half of practices".

I'm really happy for Rafa. The fifth set was maybe the best set I ever played.

With so few matches under his belt ahead of the season-opening Grand Slam, he asked organisers if they could do him a special favour, and they obliged.

He missed warmup events in Abu Dhabi and Brisbane but appeared untroubled in an exhibition match win over Austrian world number five Dominic Thiem at Melbourne Park on Friday. It's the first match of the year and I don't think further than that. I played in Kooyong once.

Novak Djokovic

"I have had a great week and the final was not easy against Ash but I was able to play my game in important moments".

"That's my feeling. We made a decision to play another match". That put us up there easier as the no.1 and 2 but we did have to do it the hard way as well, here in Australia when everybody was competing and playing. Her career at Grand Slams looks like a "nearly" storyline - making the finals of the French Open in 2014 and 2017; semifinals at Wimbledon in 2014 and the US Open in 2015. "The job was done the right way".

The pair split the four grand slam trophies between them past year, with Nadal, at 31, finishing the season as the ATP rankings' oldest world number one. "But right now it's at the level where I can compete, and every day is getting better", he said.

But he knows anything can happen so early in the season, despite being the top ranked player in the world.

"But everyone starts from zero". I start from zero again.

The last time Federer held the top spot in the world rankings was in 2012, the year he captured his seventh Wimbledon Championships and a silver medal in the London Olympics.

In Melbourne, Nadal is at his first major tournament in years without his uncle Toni, who coached him from childhood until after his US Open win last year.

Both Federer and Nadal came back from a tumultuous 2016 after missing major parts of the season through injury.

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