Novak Djokovic is relishing his return to tennis after being out of the game for nearly six months.

The 12-time Grand Slam winner has not played since abandoning his Wimbledon quarter-final against Tomas Berdych in July.

Djokovic did not pick up a racket for almost four and a half months after having surgery on his right elbow.

But the 30-year-old Serb will return to action at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi - little more than two weeks before the first Grand Slam of 2018, the Australian Open, gets under way.

"It's been a real roller-coaster ride for me for a year and a half with this issue," Djokovic said in an interview with Sport360 in Abu Dhabi.