Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 at 4:03 am , filed under Tennis News by Erik Frenz
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic hopes to give tough challenge to his rivals Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray in the upcoming season, which will kick off from January.
25-year-old Novak Djokovic is expecting to play high level tennis in the 2013 season, where he had showed great performance this year with winning Australian Open crown earlier in January and appeared in the finals at French Open and US Open. Serbian also bagged 2012 ATP World Tour Championship Finals crown to climb to No. 1 in the ATP Rankings.
Djokovic is going to defend the Australian Open, schedule to start from the 14th January at Melbourne Park on outdoor hard courts. Nole will have to face big challenge against his best rivals Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, where all the top four have won each Grand Slam in 2012 season.
Five-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic will play his first ATP Tournament at the Hopman Cup where he is going to pair up with fellow Serbian star and former World No. 1 Ana Ivanovic ahead of the first major of the year Australian Open.
Tags: Andy Murray, Australian Open 2013, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer