Djokovic learns who his first rival at this year's Australian Open will be

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The world's best tennis player Novak Djokovic will play against Croat Dino Prizmic in the 1st round of this year's Australian Open!

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Prizmic qualified for the tournament for the first time in his career was in the main draw of a Grand Slam, after beating Aziz Dougaz from Tunisia.

The Croat is the junior champion of Roland Garros from 2023, and in his country they believe that he will be "the new Djokovic." Moreover, the guy born in Split does not hide that Nole is one of his favorite tennis players.

If he makes it to the second round, and there shouldn't be any problems, Djokovic will play there against the winner of the Popiryn v Polmans match.

Tomas Etcheverry is a potential challenger in round 3, but there are also Andy Murray and Gael Monfils lurking. Then there's Ben Shelton or Adrian Mannarino in the 4th, and Novak could run into Stefanos Tsitsipas or Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals.

In the semis Djokovic's opponents could be Jannik Sinner or Andrey Rublev and possibly Carlos Alcaraz in the final. Along with the Spaniard, it could also be Daniil Medvedev or Alexander Zverev.

(Telegraf.rs)