Novak Djokovic of Serbia shed sweat from his face for Zachari Self -Right of the United States, during the second round of the US Open on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Toi in New York: Accuracy remains – 10 aces and 48 winners in their second round outing – but once burnt spark Novak jokovichThe challenge of seems unconscious.Serb may have won his opening two matches at the US Open, but no. 7 seeds looked strangely flat, disconnected from lively current that gives strength to his game. He was not in war with his box – although he pointed in his direction. The same was the same with the crowd, he was not with them, or with the umpire, with whom there was a brief exchange. This is not so much about her groundstroke – still solid, backhand, especially, when she is hurt, when she is ripping it from the corners – it’s about her energy.Many times, between points or when seated during change, it seems as if the 24-time prominent winners were reminding themselves who he is and where he is.Serb, the biggest, clear, inspiration of tennis was not a factor.
“I am a little disappointed with my game, due to which I go through the goods internal,” he said. “I am trying to shut down in the bus, once in court I am trying to solve the puzzle once. It’s not that I am not getting happiness in the competition in the court. I enjoy competition, but I don’t enjoy playing well.”On Sunday night, in their first match since the Wimbledon semi -finals, 19 -year -old American learner TN, Djokovic struggled with his footwork. Two days later, when he opened the day’s session on Ash, the 38 -year -old focus against the American qualifier Zachari Swajda. Djokovic enough to move forward in the third round of a Grand Slam for a record 75th time to win 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. “Today there was a little struggle to find a rhythm,” Djokovic said about his clash against Self -sighted, which was treated by the trainer after the second set. “This is why you mayn’t have seen me so much pump after winning points and luggage.”The four -time US Open Champion said, “It is trying to find a way to take maximum advantage of the day and win. “To not be very philosophical about it, I still love the feeling of competition, the drive that I feel in court. I really get hard on myself for a long time because I always expect myself to play at the highest level.”He said, “I still wish to compete with young people. Otherwise I will not play here.”Next to Djokovic, looking for a historical 25^Wan The major title is the British Cameron Nori.

The three -time Grand Slam finalist Casper Rud, including a run in the US Open final in 2022, is struggling with confidence issues.The 26-year-old, led by two-set-to-one, won 11 points more than his opponent in a total count, but eventually fell in Belgian’s Rafael Kolagone 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, three-hours in 5-7 and 34-munt.

“Miss-hit a lot of shots, killing a lot of frames on my forehand which is considered my best shot. It’s not a good feeling,” 12^Wan The seed said. “When you hit three of the five shots, you are not bursting with confidence in the sixth shot. It is a little bit and my shots do not go where I want to go to them. I do not have much explanation from this. ,He said, “I don’t play with great confidence these days.”Meanwhile, the fifth seeded Jack Draper withdrew from the tournament. In 2024, the semi -finalists, Draper, arrived in New York, which was not played a match since Wimbledon due to bone stress and injury to his left humorus. His rival Zizau Bergs first moved to the third round of the US Open.

PV Sindhu shocked the second seed Wang Zee Yi in the 16th of the BWF World Championships, with an old show of winning 21-19, 21-15 in 48 minutes, with an old show of power, rich and movement, because he highlighted his huge wings and employed a top opponent in a top contradiction for him.

He is now a win from a sixth worlds medal, his successes are coming to his teenage, and now in his 30s. After maintaining his 100 percent track record against Chinese opponents in the World Championship, she will now be ready for a Friday match against Indonesia’s daughter Kusuma Wardani.

Before the start of the 2025 World Championship, a look for Indus’s podium would have stopped you in 16 matches. Wang has been one of the best female single players this year, who reached the field with 40 wins in 2025 and only 9 defeats.

Sindhu was a large -scale Dalit in this game. Even though his head-to-head is also 2-2, Sindhu has fought with a win-loss record of 9–12 this year. In the year she turned 30, she came out of the first round and saw a shadow of her previous formidable self, losing the youth. At the same place last year at the Paris Olympics, she lost on the same platform for another Chinese player, Bingjio.

But it is Indus in the World Championship. Where he declared himself at the age of 18. When she became India’s first world champion after two final losses. Where he has 5 medals – one Indian record. And where, he has this one, incredible record that shows why he is a Bonafide legend: he has never lost an entire match against Chinese opponents in the World Championship.

She was still not going. On paper, the 15th seed is a disturbed beating with another seed. Win a straight game against the top, in-form Chinese player is commendable. But this is a special effort with all the command of a champion with one of the best players of the season to come in the second half of 2025 for this.

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Earlier consider Sindhu’s first two matches: In the first match against Bulgarian teenager Kalyona Nabbantova, Sindhu was down at 7–12 and then faced two game points in the first game before winning 23-21, 21-6. He says more about the slow start of the scorline Indus and reduces the speed greater than the Bulgarian experience.

In the second round against WR40 Malaysian Latshana Karupathavan, she was 12–18 in the first game before winning 21–19, 21-15. A solid mental and physical effort was required to remove that deficit and win directly in sports. But Sindhu, who came to court in the third round against the world, felt like a separate player.

She was on the attack from the beginning, with a faster smash and clever mixture of the close-in winners with an increase of 11–6 at mid-back intervals. Wang fought back at 19–19 and level. Now it became a test of veins, as much as the skill, which Sindhu has recently struggled a lot. But this once, she came to the top with a show forced Wang under pressure.

In the second game, Sindhu maintained pressure, once again took a lead of 11–6. Wang once again attracted the level and pushed the Indus, with a stunning 57-shot rally in an error from the Indian. Such long rallies have once again been a disadvantage for the Indus, but once she wanted to make it relative easily with five match points.

It was a separate Indus that we have seen in major events in 2025 and it has once again raised expectations from Indian badminton superstars.

Sindhu will play Wardani in the quarter -finals next time, who defeated Japanese Rising Star Tomoka Miazaki in 16 era. Indians and Indonesians are tied 2–2 to their heads with their heads, in which the warden won its latest meeting earlier this year.

After playing the back-to-back day, the key will now be relaxed and recovery. If Sindhu’s shots fire as they do today, there is no reason to believe in another world championship medal. As we wrote on these pages earlier, the sixth medal at the age of 30? What a story can be!