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Novak Djokovic said connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) helium inactive gets a “drug-like” adrenaline unreserved from tennis and is not reasoning astir retiring anytime soon.
The 38-year-old is astir to embark connected his 21st Australian Open and remains among the apical contenders, down defending champion Jannik Sinner and top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz.
Melbourne Park is his favourite hunting ground, claiming 10 titles.
Despite scaling backmost his tourney appearances successful caller years the Serbian large remains assured helium tin inactive vie with the champion and is not acceptable to permission the athletics behind.
“I’m inactive surviving my imagination to beryllium honest,” the erstwhile satellite fig 1 said connected the eve of the opening Grand Slam of the year.
“It’s passionateness and emotion for the game. It’s the enactment with people. It’s the vigor that you consciousness erstwhile you locomotion retired connected the court.
“That adrenaline rush, it’s astir similar a drug.
“I deliberation that a batch of the apical athletes from antithetic sports tin subordinate to that. I person been astatine slightest proceeding them talk astir that.
“It’s truthful addictive, you know, the feeling of competing.”
His long-time rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal person some hung up their racquets and Djokovic said helium perpetually got asked astir erstwhile helium would articulation them.
“I person been asked a batch astir evidently erstwhile is the extremity day going to travel for me, but I don’t privation to speech oregon deliberation astir it yet due to the fact that I’m here, I’m competing,” helium said.
“When that arrives and benignant of becomes ripe successful my head, I’ll stock it with you, and past we tin each sermon connected the farewell tour.
“But close present I’m inactive fig 4 successful the world, inactive competing astatine the highest level, and I consciousness similar determination is nary request to gully the attraction to that discussion.”
