Despite the bronze medal at Beijing, Novak Djokovic is looking to finally win the Olympic gold medal that has eluded him so far.
It only took a little push for Novak Djokovic to come past his biggest career rival, as he swept aside Rafael Nadal in their 60th ATP encounter on Monday.
Having not yet dropped a set in Paris, Djokovic’s dream still hangs in the balance with the Greek Olympic record-breaker Stefanos Tsitsipas waiting in the quarter-finals.
Djokovic has encountered very few issues this week so far, with his victory against Germany’s Dominik Koepfer unable to be the first to take a set off the Serb.
With top seed Jannik Sinner out of the Olympics through injury, Djokovic is set to meet Carlos Alcaraz in the final, with the Spaniard having got the better of him at the Wimbledon final a fortnight ago.
Novak Djokovic breaks two Olympic records in a history-making day in Paris
Having breezed past the helpless Koepfer, Djokovic doesn’t look like he’s close to done, with his fate still in his own hands.
Upon securing match point, Djokovic secured another entry into the tennis history books, as he became the the first player ever to reach four quarter-finals at the Olympics.
At 37 years and 61 days, the Serbian also became the oldest player to reach the Men’s Singles quarter-finals at the Olympics since tennis returned to the Summer Olympics program in 1988.
Since his withdrawal from the French Open after the knee injury he sustained, Djokovic has miraculously lost just a single match in the subsequent nine he has played.
Despite the persistent history-making, Novak Djokovic won’t feel finished until he wins Olympic gold
The Serb has far more pressing history-making planned as he readies himself for the Tsitsipas clash in the last eight.
The Wimbledon final against Alcaraz saw a weary Djokovic totally and utterly outplayed in every category, with the defeat his second heaviest in a grand slam final.
Needless to say, the Serb will be expecting the 21-year-old in the final again, with Alcaraz on track for a historic summer after he added the Wimbledon title to the Roland Garros crown he secured a month prior.
With a difficult run-in to the final, which would likely see him face reigning champion Alexander Zverev in a repeat of Tokyo’s semi-final, the Serb will have to do things the hard way if he’s to complete his quest.
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