World No.1 loses bronze-medal singles match and pulls out of mixed doubles with injury
Novak Djokovic reacts after losing to Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta their men’s singles tennis match for the bronze medal at the Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo on Saturday. (AFP Photo)
TOKYO: World number one and 20-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will leave the Olympics without a medal for the third Games in succession after pulling out of Saturday’s mixed doubles final with a shoulder injury.
The Serbian, who won a singles bronze in Beijing in 2008 but failed to earn a podium place in London, Rio and now Tokyo, withdrew from the mixed doubles bronze medal match minutes after his defeat by Pablo Carreno Busta in the…
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