Novak Djokovic Crashes Out of US Open in First Round to Unseeded Navone
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Mariano Navone went from watching Novak Djokovic win his 1st Grand Slam in 2008 to sending his idol home in his 1st-round exit in 2 decades: From Challenger grind to ‘La Navoneta’
Mariano Navone stunned childhood idol Novak Djokovic in a dramatic five-set US Open opener, earning the biggest win of his career. The 25-year-old Argentine’s journey began at a local club aged three before five Challenger titles helped shape his rise. Known as “La Navoneta”, Navone’s dream became reality as he beat the player he once called “very special”.
After his striking physical failure on Sunday, the question of the imminent retirement of the 39-year-old Serb arises.
The Argentine won 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 4-6, 6-2 and 6-1 against the Serbian.
Eliminated from the first round of the US Open, Sunday, August 30, 2026, a first in the Grand Slam for twenty years, Novak Djokovic lived one of the most painful evenings of his career. The body of the Serb seemed to remind him, brutally, that even the greatest are not eternal. What to think of a sports retreat?
Novak Djokovic is ELIMINATED in the first round of the US Open for the first time in his career, diminished and beaten by Mariano Navone.
Novak Djokovic suffered his earliest-ever Grand Slam exit, losing in five sets to Argentina's Mariano Navone at the US Open despite visible physical struggles and a late fightback.
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