Lost again! You may be a little surprised if such words appear in the reigning champion of the Madrid Masters, Rublev, and the reigning champion Ruud of Barcelona, but what if it is often used in Djokovic, who is known as the GOAT?
In the second round of the Madrid Masters, Djokovic lost in two sets when he faced his little fan brother Arnaldi, so let's see how mysterious Djokovic's current state is!
1. This is the first time that he has made a 0-2 debut in two consecutive tournaments, the last time he lost two consecutive games on clay, and the last time he lost six consecutive sets was in 2009 (Davis Cup 0-3 to Nadal and Ferrer).
If Djokovic was in the "bottleneck" of winning his first Grand Slam title the previous year in 2009, and his losses to Rafael Nadal, who was in his prime of play, and Ferrer, who was not yet at the end of his career, were understandable, then the successive defeats to players outside the top 30 in Monte Carlo and Madrid can only be explained by poor form.
2. This is the first time that Djokovic has made his back-to-back clay Masters debut, and he has made his debut in Madrid for the first time in 12 years (lost to Dimitrov in 2013).
Although Djokovic held a press conference after the match to announce that it would likely be his last appearance in the Madrid Masters. The tournament was not as successful as the Rome Masters in the clay trio tournament for him, but it was even better than the Monte Carlo Masters. As everyone knows, in the final in 2011, it was Nadal who defeated Nadal to achieve his long-cherished dream of defeating his old opponent for the first time on clay.
3. For the first time in his career, he suffered two consecutive defeats in a single season, and made his first back-to-back Masters debut after the 2018 Sunshine Doubles.
Although Djokovic won the runner-up of the Miami Masters this year and reached the semifinals of the Australian Open, his performance in other tournaments was too poor after all, so he lost twice three in a row. Thinking of such a performance, it is probably predictable that the Rome Masters will be out early again.
In 2018, Deyo had not yet come out of meditation and did not recover well, so he was eliminated early from the Sunshine Doubles. At the Australian Open that year, he was also unexpectedly shocked.
4. Deyo has made four debuts this year, the most in a single season since 2006 (five):
Doha lost to Berrettini
Indian Wells lost to Van der Sanschurp
Monte Carlo loses to Tabillo
Madrid lost to Arnaldi
The last time Deyo made his four debuts was back in 2006, when he made his debut. There are only four months to go this year, and although the opponents who have lost these four times are also the stalwarts of tennis, after all, none of them are in the top 30 in the world, which is still very telling.
With so many questions plaguing the Serbian king, when will he be able to stop his decline? Will it be a fight at the French Open?(Source: Tennis Home Author: Luo Cheng Qiye)