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At the French Open, Novak Djokovic Is Aiming to Rewind to 2016

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PARIS — There is no way to revisit the cramped French Open interview room where Novak Djokovic sat with a vacant look in his eyes last year after being upset by the unseeded Marco Cecchinato in the quarterfinals.

The Philippe Chatrier Stadium has been demolished, nearly reconstructed and expanded in the last year. Though it is impossible to find the precise space where Djokovic conducted that memorably tense and terse news conference, it appears that the general area where he looked miserable is now an unfinished luxury suite filled with plastic piping, bare concrete and exposed metal beams.