Novak Djokovic gave yet another demonstration of being a legend in the 2025 edition of Roland Garros, reaching the semifinals after achieving quite bad results in the first part of the red clay season. The Serbian veteran had been defeated on his debut in both Monte Carlo and Madrid sending bad signals, before his surprising decision to skip the Rome Masters 1000 in which he had always participated since 2007.

Some were starting to murmur that the former world No.1 also wanted to skip Roland Garros to focus directly on Wimbledon, but the 24-time Grand Slam champion added the Geneva ATP 250 to his schedule and clinched the 100th title of his exceptional career. That triumph allowed him to regain some confidence ahead of the French Open, in which he reached the quarterfinals without losing a single set.

In the quarterfinals, the 38-year-old from Belgrade did a real feat against Alexander Zverev by coming back from a set down and dominating the second part of the match with a tactical lesson to the German (ten years younger than him).

Nole knew he had very little chance against world number 1 Jannik Sinner in the semifinals, but he still gave his best and even had the chance to extend the challenge to the fourth set. At the end of the match, Novak was visibly emotional and made no secret of the fact that it may have been his last appearance in Paris as a professional player.

Stubbs on Nole’s future

Now Djokovic will begin to prepare for Wimbledon, the biggest goal of his season, where he has also reached the final in the last two editions.

On the latest edition of his podcast, Rennae Stubbs speculated what the last tournament of the Serbian legend’s career could be: “Djokovic does not want to lose in quarters and semis at Grand Slams. This guy has won 24 of them.

I think he still has a huge chance at Wimbledon, I really do believe that, and I think he is thinking about maybe the Australian Open, because he has won so many times, being his swan song out of the tour.”