Novak Djokovic will miss the rest of the 2017 season, including the US Open, due to an elbow injury that forced him to withdraw from Wimbledon against Tomas Berdych. Djokovic, 30, made the announcement of a "prolonged break" on his website. Djokovic has struggled in the past year, and this break has been talked about in tennis circles for some time.
Although it felt like an inevitability, it seems to be as much about refinding his game as the injury. Roger Federer took a bit of a sabbatical earlier in 2017, and we may see this become a bit of a trend among bigger tennis stars.