{"id":28811,"date":"2025-02-26T03:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T03:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28811"},"modified":"2025-02-26T03:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T03:16:43","slug":"novak-djokovic-next-tournament-all-you-need-to-know-about-serbs-schedule-after-qatar-open-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28811","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic Next Tournament: All you need to know about Serb’s schedule after Qatar Open shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Novak Djokovic last competed at the Qatar Open and will next compete at the Indian Wells Masters. That was confirmed on social media by the Indian Wells Masters page which floated him as a player coming to the event.<\/p>\n

In fairness, it also floated Venus Williams as a player that would play at this year\u2019s Indian Wells Masters only for her to come out and deny that a couple of days later. Unless it messes up in a big way again, we’ll roll with Djokovic showing up to play at the event. However, it wasn\u2019t a foregone conclusion when he crashed out of the Qatar Open a few days ago.<\/p>\n

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Djokovic returned at the event as it was the first time he played since the\u00a0Australian Open, which was derailed by a leg injury. Doha looked fine as he played well, but he then ran into an inspired\u00a0Matteo Berrettini\u00a0who proved a bit too tough to overcome.<\/p>\n

There was no indication that Novak Djokovic had any lingering effects of the injury but footage of him limping slightly at the Qatar Open showed up and many fans got concerned. That video cemented that Djokovic wouldn\u2019t be playing at the Dubai event so the attention turned to Indian Wells.<\/p>\n