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Face it — it’s time for Novak Djokovic and Venus Williams to retire
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Arthur Ashe Stadium is practically a geriatric ward this year.
Just look at this 2026 US Open. Two singles players around age 40 have competed on the biggest tennis court in the world: Novak Djokovic (39) and Venus Williams (46!).
Predictably, both of the former champions crashed out in the first round.
Djoker did so in a queasily dramatic fashion — much in the same manner of his physical collapse at the Cincinnati Open two weeks earlier.
In Flushing Meadows, the nearly-over-the-hill Serb vomited multiple times last Sunday, cramped up and broke down in tears.
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I wonder what the ring-light-loving influencers proliferating like bunnies at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center made of that stomach-churning display!
And Williams, the oldest person of both the men’s and women’s tours by some distance, lost in two sets to fellow American Sofia Kenin.
Williams — the world No. 618! — hasn’t won a grand slam singles match since 2021. And still she was mystifyingly granted a wildcard into the tournament.
Can these guys please just retire?
Though, why would they? With slams routinely giving them prime stages and treating them like royalty, and lazy,........