Reason for the absence of the former leader of the world tennis ranking was not revealed.
Serbian Novak Djokovic, the Grand Slam title record holder, will fail the Masters 1,000 of Rome, the organizers announced on Tuesday, without revealing the reason for the absence of the former leader of the world tennis ranking.
“Novak Djokovic has announced that it will not participate in Internationals in Italy 2025,” said the organization of the tournament scheduled between May 7 and 18.
Eliminated in the debut in the last two Masters 1,000, more specifically on the dirt of Monte Carlo and Madrid, a result that also recorded in Indian Wells, The current world number five abdicates from the last tournament of this category before Roland Garros – The second Grand Slam of the season is scheduled between May 26 and June 9th.
Novak Djokovic has not raised any trophy since won the Olympic title Singlary in Paris2024 in early August.
Record holder of Grand Slam titles, with 24, and weeks as a world number one (428), The 37 -year -old Serbian reached only one final this seasonleaving defeated against the ‘modest’ Jakub Mensik in Miami Masters 1,000.
Last week, when she was eliminated in Madrid, ‘djoko’ He admitted that it could be the last time the tournament was playing as a player.
“It may be … I’m not sure I’ll be back,” he said, after being defeated in the second round by Italian Matteo Arnaldi, then 44th world player.
On the beaten land, the six -time champion in Rome – the last victory dates back to 2022 – has two defeats in many other meetings this time, a bad foreshadowing for Parisian ‘major’, the only one played in brick dust.
Since it was eliminated in the Australia Open semi-finals, The old world number one participated in five tournaments onlyhaving fallen in the debut in four of them.
