{"id":78061,"date":"2026-08-29T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/novak-djokovic-feels-as-best-as-i-can-be-before-tilt-at-25th-grand-slam-title-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:55:28","slug":"novak-djokovic-feels-as-best-as-i-can-be-before-tilt-at-25th-grand-slam-title-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/novak-djokovic-feels-as-best-as-i-can-be-before-tilt-at-25th-grand-slam-title-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic feels \u2018as best as I can be\u2019 before tilt at 25th grand slam title in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Serb hopes to take advantage of wide-open men\u2019s draw<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Elena Rybakina has eyes on No 1 world ranking<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Novak Djokovic said he was as prepared as he could be for the US Open as he attempts to take advantage of the wide-open men\u2019s draw and battle for a potential 25th grand slam title.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic arrived in New York having competed only once after his semi-final run at Wimbledon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/15\/novak-djokovic-suffers-in-cincinnati-heat-as-thiago-agustin-tirante-inflicts-shock-defeat\">losing in his opening match of the Cincinnati Open<\/a> to Thiago Agust\u00edn Tirante while struggling with the humidity. However, he now sees the silver lining in that defeat, which he believes gave him the time to make sure he was in optimal shape for the US Open. \u201cI don\u2019t like early losses anywhere, to be honest, but it gave me time to be prepared for US Open in a most adequate way,\u201d he said. \u201cI had almost a few weeks, actually two weeks, to really train and get my body and mind into the right state, prepared for what\u2019s coming up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/29\/novak-djokovic-in-good-shape-as-he-aims-for-25th-grand-slam-title-in-new-york\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serb hopes to take advantage of wide-open men\u2019s draw Elena Rybakina has eyes on No 1 world ranking Novak Djokovic said he was as prepared as he could be for the US Open as he attempts to take advantage of the wide-open men\u2019s draw and battle for a potential 25th grand slam title. Djokovic arrived &#8230; <a title=\"Novak Djokovic feels \u2018as best as I can be\u2019 before tilt at 25th grand slam title in New York\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/novak-djokovic-feels-as-best-as-i-can-be-before-tilt-at-25th-grand-slam-title-in-new-york\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Novak Djokovic feels \u2018as best as I can be\u2019 before tilt at 25th grand slam title in New York\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}