"There is going to sort of be a bit of bitterness" - McEnroe doesn't expect easy ride emotionally for Djokovic on Australian Open return

Many expect Novak Djokovic to cruise through the Australian Open but John McEnroe doesn't see it happening so easily as he expects some emotion from him.

Djokovic did not want to speak about his Australian Open experience since it happened but he did admit that it was very tough for him. Some might say it was the low point of his career and you probably would not see any denial coming from Djokovic on that. McEnroe expects all of that to be part of the equation in Melbourne:

"I think he will be overjoyed at first, but then there is going to sort of be a bit of bitterness, I believe, and he has got to get through that. I think he can get through that, he’s obviously proven that he has gone through some unbelievably difficult obstacles, none more so than the last 12 months of his career."

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He continued:

"The fact that he was still able to go out and win Wimbledon and go out and play these smaller events in the fall to get his ranking high enough so that he can go and win the event in Turin and the year-end event, and embrace playing and competing, was just incredible because it would have been very easy to be frustrated and angry. I can only imagine how he felt when he was deported out of Australia and subsequently dealing with that."

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