Novak Djokovic: Predict His Total Slam Haul

[Denis]

I have been pretty sure for over a year that he has a chronic shoulder problem. Such injuries can improve for a time and then get worse and are notoriously slow to heal. Surgery is often an option but the recovery period is months and may never give the patient the power they had before. I have personal experience of this. This morning I read that Nole said he had shoulder pain and couldn't play as he wished to in yesterday's DC. It totally adds up - the deterioration in serve, loss of forehand power, loss of accuracy. Of course there are other factors but I have noticed this since autumn 2015.

Agreed this would be a good explanation of what is going on, although Becker implied it was more due to a lack of training intensity.

Shoulder has always been a problem, as early as when he came off the 2011 AO win, he cancelled a few tournaments when he was on his streak.

 

[Mary]

Agreed this would be a good explanation of what is going on, although Becker implied it was more due to a lack of training intensity.

Shoulder has always been a problem, as early as when he came off the 2011 AO win, he cancelled a few tournaments when he was on his streak.

If he has shoulder issues he would not have been wise to push his training too hard. And I have doubts about anything Boris says, to be honest. Boris always toughed out his own injuries and now has a body held together by orthopaedic surgeons and superglue!