Newly-crowned Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic has predicted Roger Federer will bounce back "big style" after taking the Swiss master's title at the season-opening Grand Slam. The 20-year-old Serb knocked out 12-time Grand Slam champion Federer in the semi-finals, ending his reign Down Under and sparking talk of a changing of the guard in men's tennis.
But third seed Djokovic dismissed the notion that the Federer era was over after coming from behind to beat unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the decider at Melbourne Park.
"It's not possible that only one tournament is changing history. Of course, I mean, I played amazing tennis here, so I think I absolutely deserved to win, even against him in the semi-finals, he accepted it in the right way," Djokovic said, after winning his first Grand Slam title.
"He's going to come back in a big style, of course. He's still planning to be the best player in the world, so we all know how good is he. We are going to see a lot of him, of course, this year."
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