The last winner of the Australian Open is going to play up to 35 years

The third racket of the world, the winner of the open championship of Australia Novak Djokovic hopes to play tennis up to 35 years. The Serb said this at a press conference preceding his start at the Tournament in Indian Wells (USA).

The access to the final of this tournament in 2007 allowed Jokovic for the first time in his career to enter the top ten world rating.

“I am only 20 years old, I still have to go a long way to my main goal - to the title of the best player in the world. I hope my health will allow me to remain a professional tennis player for another 10-15 years,” said Djokovic.

Swiss Roger Federer has been on top of the world ranking for 215 weeks in a row. Djokovic believes that now Federer’s leadership is real, as never before, he is threatening himself, as well as Spaniard Rafael Nadal and Russian Nikolai Davydenko.

“Roger has been the first racket of the planet for a long time, but this year he has not yet won a single tournament, so the intrigue is becoming more and more curious,” said Novak, who convincingly outplayed Federer in the Australian Open semifinals; True, later the Swiss agent said that Roger played in Melbourne as a sick mononucleosis.

Djokovic debuts in Indian-Wells a match with Italian Andreas Seppi. Serbu got a rather light grid: a meeting with a truly serious opponent will take place no earlier than the semifinals, where Spaniard David Ferrer or Czech Tomash Berdykh may be in his way, RIA Novosti reports.