Wearing jeans and a T-shirt on a sweltering day, the lanky 23-year-old looked a little worse for wear as he sat next to the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
He perked up enough to gush about having hit his stride after fighting years of doubt as a one-slam wonder since taking his first title at Melbourne Park in 2008.
"It's been a period of ups and downs for me the last three years ... I haven't had that consistency and self-belief that I've needed to.
"Right now and the last six months, I feel that I've reached that stage that I believe that I can really win it."
"In last two months I'm probably playing the best tennis of my life and I cannot ask for a better start to the season. To be able to win the Grand Slam gives you a lot of confidence."
Djokovic set up his title with a semi-final trouncing of Roger Federer, and his domination of Murray has fuelled talk of a new Grand Slams triumvirate, with the Serbian tipped to share more of the Grand Slam spoils with the Swiss master and Spaniard Rafa Nadal.
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