"I think he can beat Sinner and Alcaraz": Novak Djokovic back to his best in 2025? Patrick Mouratoglou makes prediction

Novak Djokovic has not had the best year of his career to say the least with the 24-time Grand Slam champion's main achievement being an Olympic Gold medal finally. But Patrick Mouratoglou had a few points to note when it came to Djokovic.

This also in making his prediction for his 2025. He said that while he had a bad year, this was due to his great year prior to that and that in reality, he can still beat the big names and still be a factor at the top of the sport going forward.

“I think he had a very bad year, but it came after an incredible year,” Mouratoglou said as per Tennis365.

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“Let’s not forget that only last year he won three Grand Slams and played in the final of the other. So we shouldn’t forget that was just one year ago, not ten years ago, just one year ago.

“He won the Olympics which was his main focus this year, beating Carlos in the final, playing fantastic tennis, so he is not far away.

“I think he can beat them (Sinner and Alcaraz). It’s very hard, there was a lot of margin before, but now there is none.

“When he plays them I think anyone can win, but I don’t think he’s far behind. I think he can still win Grand Slams, I’m sure about it.”

“For Novak it’s only about his motivation,” added Mouratoglou.

“I understand that he struggles with it at the moment because all his career was about beating the other two and up being better than them, that was the fight of his life in tennis and he won. So to keep his motivation now, it’s very difficult. Now that Rafa is retiring, the whole year that was the problem, that’s how I see it, I don’t know if I’m right, this year for Novak was tough.

“This is because from the start of the season you could see that Rafa was struggling so much and probably came to his mind, well I won. When you fight all your life for something and you finally get it, where do you find the motivation?"

“So I hope this difficult year is something he will be able to use to feed his motivation and come back next year as good as the previous one because then we’ll have a fight between those three that is going to be unbelievable and I want to see it.”

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