Novak Djokovic interview: The World No 1 on his pursuit of perfection part 4

“I had a lot of success very young in my career, winning the Australian Open at 20, but I thought the transition to become a consistent major winner would be smoother and easier than it was,” he reflects. “So that’s where I caught myself up in a little bit of a rush, and it took time and the new grains of maturity you gain from every defeat to understand what I needed to do to reach that next level and become the best in the world.”