Tennis fans have gotten used to the fact that Djokovic never ceases to amaze. But what to make of the fire that continues to burn in his belly, even as his greatest rivals have all eventually had to tap out against Father Time.
“It’s hard to do, to get better at that many things, and still maintain that hunger he’s got,” said McEnroe. “That’s the part that I really don’t understand, that he is still able to have that type of desire and hunger to do this day in and day out.”
Djokovic has been miraculously good in his late thirties, but it doesn’t change the fact he’s at an inflection point this weekend. He’s about to face the type of phenom that then 31-year-old McEnroe got derailed by in 1990.
“It turned…