{"id":161323,"date":"2025-01-29T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=161323"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:57:55","slug":"nole-opens-up-theyre-writing-my-tennis-obituary-my-father-is-urging-me-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nole-opens-up-theyre-writing-my-tennis-obituary-my-father-is-urging-me-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"NOLE OPENS UP: They\u2019re writing my tennis \u2018obituary\u2019, my father is urging me to retire!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI\u2019m thinking about retirement, more about what it will look like than when it will happen. I think I\u2019ll decide it\u2019s enough when I start losing more often, when I feel I can no longer compete for the biggest trophies,\u201d said Serbia\u2019s best tennis player, <a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/tag\/novak-dokovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record 24-time Grand Slam champion gave a lengthy interview to GQ magazine earlier, where he also talked about how his father, Sr\u0111an, is \u201curging\u201d him to end his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us remind you, part of the conversation on this topic was also released in early January, while in this continuation, Nole said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE IN SERBIAN:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\t<figure class='wp-block-newspack-blocks-iframe'>\n\t\t<div class='wp-block-embed__wrapper' style=\"height:600px; width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe\n\t\t\t\tid = 'newspack-iframe-z0gNkiHTSsRq'\n\t\t\t\tlayout = 'responsive'\n\t\t\t\theight = '100'\n\t\t\t\twidth = '100'\n\t\t\t\tsrc = 'https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02Y1Y7hnPbEPnVxWs5RE2hiuE8fVz8DERWbAKjU8um3dTkJby3XEZNutjEkjVf7aLrl'\n\t\t\t\tstyle = 'height: 600px; width: 100%;'\n\t\t\t\tframeborder = '0'\n\t\t\t\tallowfullscreen\n\t\t\t><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/figure>\n\n\t<script>\n\t\tconst iframe = document.getElementById(\"newspack-iframe-z0gNkiHTSsRq\");\n\t\tconst timerId = setInterval( function() {\n\t\t\t\tiframe.src = iframe.src;\n\t\t\t}, 2000 );\n\n\t\tiframe.onload = function() {\n\t\t\tclearInterval(timerId);\n\t\t}\n\n\t<\/script>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel like people have been writing my tennis \u2018obituary\u2019 for some time now. The first one to start with that was my father, although I don\u2019t know how much he\u2019ll like me saying this. He\u2019s been trying to persuade me to retire for some time now, but he\u2019s not insisting. He understands and respects my decisions, but he often asks me what else I want to achieve. He is aware of the stress and tension that affect my mind and body, and thus everything around me,\u201d Djokovic pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the last Australian Open, he retired from the semifinal match against Alexander Zverev due to injury. 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I think I\u2019ll decide it\u2019s enough when I start losing more often, when I feel I can no longer compete for the biggest trophies,\u201d said Serbia\u2019s best tennis player, Novak Djokovic. The record 24-time Grand Slam champion gave a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":161324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4685,436,38,91,2297,252,340],"class_list":["post-161323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-citulja","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-serbia","tag-sport","tag-srdan-dokovic","tag-tenis","tag-tennis","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161326,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161323\/revisions\/161326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}