This year's Roland Garros was a very valuable experience for Novak Djokovic. The Serbian player lost to Marco Cecchinato in the quarter-finals wasting a match point, but after that he achieved some amazing results losing Queen's final, winning Wimbledon, Cincinnati and US Open titles.

'Cecchinato has made me realize, a lot of things after that loss to him in Roland Garros', Djokovic admitted. 'I was very, very disappointed with my performance that day. I felt like I started to play well in Roma, had some great matches in Roland Garros, and then I felt like I let myself down a little bit there.

Of course, credit to him for playing amazing match in the tournament. I felt like I was so close to desired level, and then I just completely underplayed that match. I had to kind of disconnect a little bit. I went hiking with my wife for five days in the French mountains.

We just isolated ourselves and took things from a different perspective. Ever since then, the tennis is completely different for me. In terms of results, I played finals of Queen's, won Wimbledon, won Cincinnati, and won US Open.

I guess we'll be hiking some more very soon (smiling).' Djokovic won US Open all the three times that he had previously won Wimbledon in the same year, 2011, 2015, 2018. Is it a coincidence? 'I hope it happens every year, same thing (smiling).

But, no, obviously winning Wimbledon was my childhood dream. I was making these improvised Wimbledon trophies when I was six, seven years old in my room, just kind of dreaming about that. When I won Wimbledon for the first time, that has kind of opened a lot of doors, metaphorically speaking, for me in terms of my possibilities.

I felt like all the other slams were kind of waiting in line for me to first win Wimbledon, to realize my childhood dream. But I think winning a slam, any slam, gives you huge confidence that you carry with you for certain period of time.

Obviously tough thing about our schedule is that we have Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and US Open condensed within four or five months. At the same time, good thing about it is if you win Wimbledon or French, then you have another slam, and you can thrive on that confidence level that you got from winning the previous slam.

So maybe that's one of the reasons why I've managed to do so well after winning Wimbledon and doing so well here in New York.' ALSO READ: Mouratoglou: 'I coached, but also Toni Nadal, Bajin coached on every point'