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Should Novak Djokovic skip Wimbledon after his French Open embarrassment?

The most telling part of Novak Djokovic's French Open flameout didn't come in the crucial first-set tiebreak against Dominic Thiem, one in which Djokovic lost five of six service points and fell 7-5. It didn't come in the second set, when Djokovic was seemingly just going through the motions, stuck on the last set he let get away. And it didn't even come in the third set, when Djokovic pathetically quit on the match, getting bageled to cap off a dismal 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-0 quarterfinal defeat. It was his first 0-6 set in a Slam since 2005 - more than 900 sets ago - when he was an on-the-rise teenager instead of a down-on-his-luck 30-year-old.