Novak jokovic is the defending champion at the US Open Novak jokovic has claimed that he never wants to recover after achieving one of his biggest career goals by winning an Olympic gold medal earlier this month the world number two is seeking his first Grand Slam title of the year at the US Open his last chance to win a major trophy in 2024 jokovic has not played since the Paris 2024 games opting to miss the preus open warm-up events ahead of his first match in Flushing Meadows jokovic shed light on his feelings after his Olympics Glory I hope to never recover from that Olympic Triumph because it's the best set of feelings that I ever had as an athlete the 24 time Grand Slam Champion told Eurosport on the court but also off when we went back to celebrate with our people all of the Serbian Olympians that managed to win a medal the Olympic gold medal was jovic's first title win of the 2024 season and he's hoping that it's the Boost he needs coming into the last grand slam of the year he continued it was a very unique moment for me I'll never forget it and I'll try to use it as a great confidence boost for what's coming up in New York in the next few weeks the 37-year-old has not played a match since he beat Carlos alcaraz in two tie break sets to win the Olympics earlier this summer he chose to withdraw from Master's 1,000 events in Canada and Cincinnati and comes into the US Open with no matches on the North American hardcourts explaining his decision jokovic added I haven't had much time to recover or much time to train I tried to get the most out of the few weeks that I had I had more than all the other guys that played the tournaments