Olympics-Tennis-No medal for injured Djokovic for third straight Games


  • Tennis
  • Saturday, 31 Jul 2021

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Tennis - Mixed Doubles - Semifinal - Ariake Tennis Park, Tokyo, Japan - July 30, 2021. Nina Stojanovic of Serbia and Novak Djokovic of Serbia arrive ahead of their semifinal match against Aslan Karatsev of the Russian Olympic Committee and Elena Vesnina of the Russian Olympic Committee REUTERS/Edgar Su

TOKYO (Reuters) -World number one and 20-times 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 bronze medal match with a shoulder injury.

The Serbian, who won a singles bronze in Beijing in 2008 but failed to earn a podium place at London, Rio and now Tokyo, withdrew from the mixed doubles minutes after losing to Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta in the singles bronze medal match.

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