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Former seven-time Major winner Justine Henin dismissed claims that Novak Djokovic\u2019s 2024 season was unsuccessful by simply highlighting that the Serb achieved his biggest goal for this year.<\/p>\n

This season, the Serbian tennis star made his lone Grand Slam final at Wimbledon and lost it in straight sets to Carlos Alcaraz. For the record 24-time Slam champion, this was the first season since 2017 that he didn\u2019t land a single Major.<\/p>\n

But this was also the year in which Djokovic finally became an Olympic gold medalist. And by doing so, the 37-year-old completed his resume and now owns the all-time Slam record, has spent the most weeks at the world No. 1 spot, and also has a gold medal in his collection.<\/p>\n

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Novak Djokovic\u00a9 Olympics\/Instagram \u2013 Fair Use<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For years, he openly spoke numerous times that winning the Olympics was the goal and dream that he absolutely wanted to accomplish and didn\u2019t hide earlier this year that his biggest focus would be on the Summer Games.<\/p>\n

However, some are still adamant that this season was far from the Serb\u2019s standard and expectations, with some also arguing that he is no longer in Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s league.<\/p>\n

Henin: Djokovic accomplished what he wanted\u2026<\/h2>\n

\u201cOf course his season was successful. He went and got the title he wanted, that was his ultimate goal. He went through a lot of phases this season, including certainly a phase of demotivation and then things to manage on a physical level too \u2013 but there was only one place where he wanted to shine. And the way he did it, I still can\u2019t believe it. This ability, when he didn\u2019t have a great season, when everyone was doubting him, to raise his level of play as he did and manage to be present again in a big event, it\u2019s just phenomenal,\u201d the former world No. 1 told Eurosport.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Serb \u2013 who turns 38 next May \u2013 underlined to his critics that he is still not seriously thinking about retiring from pro tennis. Also, Djokovic noted that he would be gunning for more Grand Slams and success in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Djokovic didn’t win any Grand Slams this season, which led to some labeling this as ‘a bad season’ for the Serb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"yoast_head":"\nSlam icon shuts down claim from Novak Djokovic's critics with simple statement - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=20531\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Slam icon shuts down claim from Novak Djokovic's critics with simple statement - 24\/7 News America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Djokovic didn't win any Grand Slams this season, which led to some labeling this as 'a bad season' for the Serb.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=20531\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"24\/7 News America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-19T08:56:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/12.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=20531\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=20531\",\"name\":\"Slam icon shuts down claim from Novak Djokovic's critics with simple statement - 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