He is an unseen miracle: Novak Djokovic’s father

He is an unseen miracle: Novak Djokovic’s father

Novak Djokovic at Australian Open 2012

World no.1 Novak Djokovic won his 18th grand slam last month, defeating Russian Daniil Medvedev in the final at Melbourne. This was also Novak’s 9th Australian Open title.

Srdjan Djokovic, Novak’s father recently spoke to Sputnik about the impact of his son on the common people of Serbia and Serbia as a nation.

“Novak is an unseen miracle. He appeared at the worst time for Serbia and the Serbian people – at the time of bombing, sanctions, humiliation and oppression. Imagine that twenty of the richest countries in the world are bombing a small Serbia,” Senior Djokovic said.

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“In all these misfortunes, Novak appeared, as if God sent him to show that we are not a genocidal people, that we are not the worst in the world, but that we are part of the old European civilization and that we have nothing to be ashamed of.”

He wants to show that tennis is not just a tennis game, but that tennis is life: Srdjan Djokovic on his son

Novak Djokovic

Novak’s father has always been local about issues surrounding his son. He has always spoke how the criticism around Novak was unfair. To Sputnik, he spoke about the issue too.

On asked whether the criticism bothered him, Senior Djokovic said: “It doesn’t bother him at all. That Serbian stubbornness is well-known, and it seems to me that the more he invents some things that have nothing to do with the truth and the brain, the better and better he plays.”

“He wants to show that tennis is not just a tennis game, but that tennis is life. That life is for those few thousand fantastic young players he is fighting for. It’s much harder because it doesn’t have the support of Federer and Nadal, which is really an amazing fact to me as if they haven’t already taken enough money, so they need a few more millions, a few billion,” he explained.

“I don’t know what it’s about, but yes They don’t support Novak for something that is generally good for those people who can barely make ends meet, it’s a really amazing enigma for me.”

Novak Djokovic recently broke Roger Federer‘s record of most weeks as world no.1. On tour, Novak Djokovic will play at Miami next.

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