MELBOURNE – At the quarter-turn to the season, cleaning out the notebook (and MS Word file) from the 2016 Australian Open. And, if you’ll indulge this bit of unseemly self-promotion, I have a new book out this week from the Freakonomics-for-sports genre—and my publisher would be rightfully upset if I didn't mention it today. With that obligation fulfilled, onward…..
• Sometimes players—of all levels—concede “too good” after a point. Sometimes even after a match. But right now Djokovic’s entire level of tennis is simply too good. It’s been more than a year since he entered an event and failed to get to a final.