During the Aussie final, he applauded Nadal after getting scorched on a winner. For many fans, this was delightful. For others it was inappropriate. But do fans have a double standard when it comes to Federer and Djokovic? Suppose Djokovic had a commercial in which he lugged several pieces of Grand Slam hardware onto an airplane. Would fans enjoy it, or would they call it arrogance?
Tennis fans have long suspected Djokovic could break through and dominate tennis. Before , Federer and Nadal fans carried a kind of nervous anticipation each time their hero had to defeat Djokovic to capture a Grand Slam. Open was a clear signal the gap had closed. It was the first time Nadal fans could wonder if it were now easier to beat Federer than Djokovic. It may have been more of a relief to defeat Djokovic. He was coming. Suddenly, seemingly overnight, he became the dominator.
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And yet Djokovic survived. Even more than that, he crawled back out of the water with a crocodile clamped around one leg and a piranha attached to the other, shrugged them off and then looked at his oozing, bloody stumps for limbs and decided they were nothing but a couple of scratches, too. He won, somehow unremarkably, in remarkable circumstances.
In an interview after the match, Djokovic admitted that he had to pretend all the shouts of 'Come on Roger! It sounds silly but it is like that. Have you ever heard anything so unbearably tragic come out of the mouth of a world-class athlete in your entire life?
It's just what Djokovic does. Absorb and react. Whereas Federer presses, forces, manipulates and maneuvres in search of his points, Djokovic simply gets in the way. One of them plays tennis like a chess grandmaster and the other like the world's widest squash wall. And that isn't to diminish what Djokovic does. His style of play, perma-scrambling along the baseline on the very edges of his heels, along with cultivating this totally impenetrable state of mind, a secret flower garden locked inside a bank vault in his mind, seems impossible.
And it's maintained through every single match he plays. Start to finish. Whatever his level of fatigue, no matter how dire the circumstances, regardless of the opponent or the numbers actively cheering against him. Open after smacking a ball in frustration and accidentally hitting a line judge. Just a few weeks ago, at the Tokyo Olympics, he smashed one racket in frustration and hurled another into the fortunately empty stands.
Over the years he has been criticized for sexist comments. In the past, he was an obnoxious winner. After capturing the Australian Open, he ripped off his shirt, pounded his chest, and bellowed maniacally. During an online chat last year, he suggested that positive energy could purify water. In another, he outed himself as an anti-vaxxer. Open is the large number of players who remain unvaccinated. Even his good deeds tend to backfire. But it turned into a super-spreader fiasco.
Djokovic and his wife both caught the coronavirus, as did a handful of others. Jemele Hill: Naomi Osaka is part of a larger war within sports. None of this has hurt his tennis. Even if he ends up winning more Grand Slam titles than any other player, the most popular players in tennis will be Federer first, Nadal second and the third seems destined to be whoever is playing Djokovic. Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter TOfficial. Jannik Sinner disappointed he came up short of reaching his big goal for Too much at stake for Novak Djokovic to skip Australian Open.
The former world No 1 produced one of his best performance since hip surgery at the start of
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