{"id":7916,"date":"2026-11-03T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/djokovic-admits-physical-toll-after-surviving-vacherot-test-at-paris-masters\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:18:08","slug":"djokovic-admits-physical-toll-after-surviving-vacherot-test-at-paris-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/djokovic-admits-physical-toll-after-surviving-vacherot-test-at-paris-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Admits Physical Toll After Surviving Vacherot Test At Paris Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has fired back at doubts surrounding his longevity, overcoming a set and a break deficit to defeat Valentin Vacherot 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the Paris Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Making his debut at the La D\u00e9fense Arena,the tournament\u2019s new venue, the 39-year-old seven-time champion snapped Vacherot\u2019s five-match winning streak coming off his Basel title, keeping his own push for ATP Finals qualification alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/super-falcons-adegbuyi-akekoromowei-uzoma-nominated-for-2026-caf-awards\/\">Super Falcons, Adegbuyi, Akekoromowei, Uzoma Nominated For 2026 CAF Awards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-hour-and-35-minute battle took a severe physical toll on the 10th seed, who struggled early on against Vacherot\u2019s heavy serving. \u201cI expected a match like this with very few opportunities,\u201d Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a tremendous serve coming at 215 to 225 km\/h. For a set and a half, I had a very difficult time reading it, which put additional pressure on my service games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rare blunder in the first-set tiebreak nearly proved costly for Djokovic. \u201cI missed an incredibly easy forehand volley. I just had a brain freeze, and next thing you know, I was down a set and down a break,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>:<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2026-u-17-wwc-brazil-coach-rilany-warns-flamingos-will-be-tough-to-beat\/\">2026 U-17 WWC: Brazil Coach Rilany Warns Flamingos Will Be Tough To Beat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, a break back at 2-1 in the second set unlocked the contest, allowing Djokovic to establish control on Vacherot\u2019s delivery.<\/p>\n<p>While the Serbian finished strongly in the third set, he raised concerns over his physical freshness heading into his next-round tie against Rinky Hijikata. \u201cThe third set was really good, but it was very tiring physically with a lot of long rallies,\u201d Djokovic noted after sealing his hard-fought comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has fired back at doubts surrounding his longevity, overcoming a set and a break deficit to defeat Valentin Vacherot 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-3 in the first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}