Tough loss for Joker. That would not do bode well for him in 2026. I am more than ready for his retirement in 2026. 🫡

 

A mess

 

Off with his head!

 

What happened? Why did he retire?

 

strange he retired in such a high-stake tournament where players would do anything to win every single point 🙄

 

Djokovic gave his absolute all and left what he had on the court

Just listen to his pained moans in the TB

He knows how much this meant

Like when Djokovic retired vs Zverev in AO SF, he has nothing left

 

he says he won’t retire, but he hasn’t played a single match to completion in good health

 

TBF it was the right decision from him to retire, no point in worsening his back at this rando event.

He also had to play somewhat and not just phone it in and withdraw from the match, after all he needs to leave the country alive and be on Turki's good books.

 

Why is he out there? To 'grow' the game! Not for money, nothing could be further from the truth.

He is trying to 'grow' the game, in a country that has never produced a single tennis player, and which is very unlikely to ever produce a female player.

 

and which is very unlikely to ever produce a female player.

https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/yara-alhaqbani/800627337/ksa/wt/S/overview/

Saudi tennis star claims Accra ITF J100 girl’s singles title

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s rising tennis star Haniya Minhas claimed victory in the Tennis Foundation’s Ghana Open — Accra ITF J100 girl’s singles title last week. Minhas triumphed in the final against the tournament’s top seed, Tunisian player Lamiss Houas, with a score of 6-4, 6-2. This victory...

www.arabnews.com

 

Those Saudis sure have alot of money. Gonna end up buying WWE and now the ATP/WTA

 

No idea a 3rd place match even existed but tuned in final few points.

A shame for Fritz that the moment he was waiting for was just an exho, but should at least gain some confidence.

 

Do the players get extra money for winning a third place in this event?Weird,that such a match exists...outside Olympics makes no sense

 

Do the players get extra money for winning a third place in this event?Weird,that such a match exists...outside Olympics makes no sense

No. Only the overall winner gets more if I'm not mistaken.

 

Who cares? It's just a lousy exhibition played in evil Saudi Arabia.

 

Blood money. yea. WWE sold out too to them. Wrestlemania will be there next year with probably a better card than they give the American Audiences

 

Like some said, Fritz has improved massively, even this prime Djokovic can't win a set against him anymore.

This era is clearly too strong for Djokovic, that's why he made a mistake trying to chase 25, he has instead been exposed for the weak era mug he has always been.

 

No longer a pigeon. H2H 11-1 in favor of Novak.

 

11-1*, we need to be exact when documenting these things. Asterisks matter.

 

Gutless cash grab. At least finish the match if they paid you all that money. Just like Zverev in AO.

Novak quick to quit when he knows he’s going to lose

 

Novak quick to quit when he knows he’s going to lose

it's an exho, him tweaking his back more in this useless tournament would be retardation of massive levels

 

Saudi PIF has $941 billion dollars

They spent maybe $13.5M on this event

A drop in the ocean, people

All these millions sounds like a lot to Westerners

But for the Saudis it is literally a rounding error, a fraction of 1%

 

Djokovic and third place matches don't mix.

Pulled out of bronze medal mixed doubles match.

Lost bronze medal match in Tokyo.

Lost bronze medal match in London.

Won bronze medal match in Beijing.

 

Fritz should have won that first set a lot more easily. He like 10 bps. Djokovic was trying his hardest to sneak the first set, but when he couldn't he decided he'd done enough. He's definitely fine other than being 38. Congrats Fritz! Hopes this gives him boost to finish out the season.

 

What I want to know is what was the point of having this match in the 1st place?

What does the player who finishes in 3rd place in this tournament gets?

 

To you childish, juvenile Djokovic haters I see on social media: STOP BEING A BABY just because Djokovic retired from a meaningless exo. Djokovic is the GOAT, whether your whiny, hating self likes it or not.

 

Factually incorrect, though agree much is still left to be done. Like I said change doesn't happen over night, so please verify your comments against scientific and statistical sources before "contributing". Saudi is even above Morocco, Algeria and Egypt.

https://theweek.com/60339/things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia

Well Egypt, Algeria and Morocco aren't religious countries by law, Saudi Arabia is. In Egypt specifically it's a matter of chauvinism among large parts of the public. But there's also a women's rights movement, a secular media that pushes for improvements in women's rights and for legislation for stricter punishments for related crimes. They have influence when it comes both the authorities and the justice system. The Egyptian regime isn't evil when it comes to women's rights, it simply doesn't do enough when it comes to treating the gender-based crimes. I can share a couple of videos explaining it, but they are in Hebrew.

Hilarious that countries like India are 131st in the top, but Saudi is still "evil".

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India has billions of people in it, different districts and different states. The situation of women's rights is different between them, between small villages and big cities. The problem there is similar to the one in Egypt - too many chauvinistic people in the public in numerous places and authorities that don't do enough. Saudi Arabia's regime is centralized and has almost complete control over its citizens.

TLDR: in Egypt and India these aren't the authorities that are evil when it comes to women's rights, a part of the population is and the authorities are far from handling it properly. In Saudi Arabia the regime itself is evil.

Iran, Chad, Sudan and Pakistan are the ones.

I never claimed they aren't evil. But they don't get global legitimacy from the West and from the tennis world, do they?

 

Well Egypt, Algeria and Morocco aren't religious countries by law, Saudi Arabia is. In Egypt specifically it's a matter of chauvinism among large parts of the public. But there's also a women's rights movement, a secular media that pushes for improvements in women's rights and for legislation for stricter punishments for related crimes. They have influence when it comes both the authorities and the justice system. The Egyptian regime isn't evil when it comes to women's rights, it simply doesn't do enough when it comes to treating the gender-based crimes. I can share a couple of videos explaining it, but they are in Hebrew.

India has billions of people in it, different districts and different states. The situation of women's rights is different between them, between small villages and big cities. The problem there is similar to the one in Egypt - too many chauvinistic people in the public in numerous places and authorities that don't do enough. Saudi Arabia's regime is centralized and has almost complete control over its citizens.

TLDR: in Egypt and India these aren't the authorities that are evil when it comes to women's rights, a part of the population is and the authorities are far from handling it properly. In Saudi Arabia the regime itself is evil.

I never claimed they aren't evil. But they don't get global legitimacy from the West and from the tennis world, do they?

You're just trying to move those goal posts. You said that every other Arab state treats their women better. Evidence proved otherwise.

Is evil when the state tries to correct older medieval style awful laws and do better step by step, or when the state does nothing to address violent social behaviour?

 

You're just trying to move those goal posts. You said that every other Arab state treats their women better. Evidence proved otherwise.

You posted the numbers so I explained what is behind the numbers in some of these cases. There's a difference between the population within the state and the state itself.

Is evil when the state tries to correct older medieval style awful laws and do better step by step, or when the state does nothing to address violent social behaviour?

Both are bad but I would consider the latter as the lesser of the two evils, literally. Anyway the countries you mentioned don't have the money and resources Saudi Arabia has. If they had them and would still be below Saudi Arabia in the combined table there would be a good reason to consider these countries as more evil than Saudi Arabia.

 

You mean to say that he retired in an exhibition before?

No, it was not a comment either way on that.

The post i was replying to was talking about whether Djokovic is contemplating career retirement, and saying he had not been managing to complete matches in good health......as below...

he says he won’t retire, but he hasn’t played a single match to completion in good health

I was not being serious, and just referring to match from many years ago when he did complete the match while still in good health.

The more serious side to his recent statements, is that he anticipates, and suggests he has insider knowledge on, a big change to professional tennis.