retirement

The image is both brilliant and bittersweet: Novak Djokovic, one of the greatest athletes to ever grace a tennis court, crouched on the sacred turf of Wimbledon or Rod Laver Arena, his body pushed to its absolute limit. For over a decade and a half, we have watched this man defy physics, logic, and his rivals with a superhuman elasticity. But recently, a new narrative has emerged, one not of invincibility, but of inevitability. The man himself has admitted it: "My body is feeling worse than ever before."