Novak Djokovic

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Djokovic warming up for his match

Current ranking: 1

Last result: Banja Luka quarterfinals (lost to Dusan Lajovic)

Next tournament: Rome Masters

30 Comments on Novak Djokovic

  1. ^^^^^^^––It is highly improbable–

    You are being unusually diplomatic with that statement Holdserve 😉

    Not improbable. It’s impossible not to know……………

    IMO the CAS verdict was fair. Troicki has been punished for avoiding the test albeit more leniently than might have been the case had the Doctor not bungled the situation by allowing him to leave and accepting his offer to return the next day.

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    • This is what I do not understand: we are told the reason he did not want to take the test on the first day is because of his fear of needles. Was that phobia cured the following day?

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  2. As I remember it, he said he was already feeling unwell and because of his history of needle phobia he feared giving blood would make him feel even worse so could he wait till the next day. It is unclear what took place next because the doctor’s version of events and his differ somewhat. But the ITF tribunal said she came across as a reliable witness whereas Troicki’s story kept changing and in their view he was an unreliable witness and prone to exaggeration.

    In the absence of any hard evidence their verdict was perforce a subjective opinion, as in turn was that of the CAS.

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  4. Have only just seen there is already a thread for this news item. I’d actually typed the above late last night but had forgotten to hit the send button.

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  5. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/14/sport/tennis-wada-fahey-djokovic/index.html?sr=sharebar_twitter

    World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey has told CNN he doesn’t think Novak Djokovic “has the faintest idea” what his organization does after the former World No. 1 said he’d lost faith in the system.

    “I don’t think Novak Djokovic has the faintest idea what we do and if he wants to understand what we do I’m more than happy to pick up the phone and talk to him, if he wants to talk to me,” he told CNN.

    “If he wishes to then make a comment I might listen to him but for the moment I don’t think that was an informed statement.”

    I don’t think Novak cares to know what WADA does Mr.Fahey. He is only interested in what happens to his friends.

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    • I was wondering how long it would be before Novak had his knuckles rapped for his wild outburst. His publicist should demand danger money for putting out the fires Novak starts.

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  6. Andy’s jumped in, hasn’t he? Said Cilic and Troicki were “unprofessional.”
    Dunno about that, these guys are face to face with each other every day in the locker room…oops unless banned of course…..;)
    Perhaps he was asked directly?

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  8. RT @stevewilonap: “#WADA has approved its new anti-doping code, including 4-year bans (rather than 2) for serious drug cheats.#doping”

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  9. If Djokovic pulls off both his singles matches AND the doubles to lift the Davis Cup he will be in line for for a sainthood in Serbia. Not to mention every gong that exists.

    The mind boggles at the celebrations which would follow on Sunday.

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      • It will give him an opportunity to reprise the ‘I put playing for my country before my career’ performance first seen in 2011 and again earlier this year.

        I’m watching him play Stepanek right now – complete with the full panoply of bellicose jingoism.

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  10. Raising the maximum sentence to 4 years is a step in the right direction. There will always be people who try to circumnavigate the rules whatever the sport but it should deter athletes tempted to dabble because presumably offences deemed less serious will be sentenced pro rata.

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  11. Ricky: Somehow I accidentally inserted a character in my password. This has happened before but I cannot find a way of deleting the offending versions.

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  13. RT @darrencahill: “Novak is back to his Wii tennis form of two years ago. Must be running on fumes but there’s no tonic better than @DavisCup at home. ”

    I guess we should be afraid, huh?

    #JankoSigh

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  14. WADA Slams Djokovic

    The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency has slammed Novak Djokovic for his comments regarding WADA’s administration of anti-doping controls and procedure. Last week, Djokovic said he had lost all faith in tennis’ anti-doping authorities after his countyman, Viktor Troicki, was handed a 12-month ban for failing to provide a requested blood sample at an ATP tournament earlier this year.

    “I don’t think Novak Djokovic has the faintest idea what we do and if he wants to understand what we do I’m more than happy to pick up the phone and talk to him, if he wants to talk to me,” John Fahey, president of WADA, told CNN. ”If he wishes to then make a comment I might listen to him but for the moment I don’t think that was an informed statement.”

    Last week, in response to the Court of Arbitration of Sport’s decision on Troicki’s appeal, Djokovic railed against tennis’ anti-doping system. ”[The Troicki case] proves again that this system of WADA and the anti-doping agency doesn’t work,” Djokovic said during the ATP World Tour Finals in London. Djokovic believed it was the responsibility of the anti-doping agencies to provide clear explanations as to the rules and regulations surrounding a player’s responsibilities and the consequences of failing to provide a requested blood sample.

    “I don’t have trust in what’s going on,” Djokovic said. “I don’t know if tomorrow the doping control officers who are representatives of…WADA there at the tournaments, because of their unprofessionalism, because of their negligence, because of their inability to explain the rules in a proper way, I don’t know if they’re going to misplace the test that I have or anything worse than that.”

    In addition to Djokovic, Roger Federer also questioned tennis’ anti-doping efforts last week. Federer, a vocal proponent of more testing, believes he’s been tested less now than he was in the past. Stuart Miller, head of anti-doping for the ITF, disagreed.

    “We’ve got the exact number of tests on Roger Federer and our information does not match what he says,” Miller told Reuters. ”As far as we are concerned, the number of tests completed have remained remarkably constant.”

    “That isn’t to say that there aren’t other organizations that were testing him to some extent previously and now doing so less and we just don’t know about those figures, but as far as we are concerned the number of tests remains pretty constant for 10 years or so.”

    Miller pointed to the Troicki case and the Marin Cilic case as proof that tennis’ anti-doping scheme has worked. ”To me that shows that the program is successful in catching the people it is supposed to be catching so I don’t think it’s necessarily fair criticism.”

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  15. Simon Briggs of the Telegraph wades in:

    Novak Djokovic’s comments in wake of Viktor Troicki ban prove that the tennis family is too dysfunctional
    Tennis needs leadership – the lack of sanction over Novak Djokovic’s undermining of a drug tester in wake of Viktor Troicki’s ban proved that.

    “World No 2 Novak Djokovic recently accused a doping control officer of being “negligent and unprofessional”, and no one in authority even blinked.
    What a perfect illustration of the sport’s lack of leadership.
    In football or cricket, dissent is an offence, even if it happens in the heat of battle. Steve Bruce and Jose Mourinho are among the managers fined by the Football Association in the past month alone.

    “Yet at last week’s end-of-season showcase at the O2 Arena, Djokovic came into the interview room with what was effectively a prepared statement, and did all he could to undermine the credibility of Dr Elena Gorodilova, a woman who has spent 15 years in her post. If tennis had a hint of gumption, he would have faced disciplinary action.
    Djokovic’s fury was prompted by the fate of Viktor Troicki, who is now serving a 12-month suspension — the minimum sentence, according to Wada guidelines — for missing a dope test in April under Dr Gorodilova’s supervision.

    “These two men have looked out for each other like brothers, ever since they first met in Belgrade in 1995.
    And here is a clue to tennis’s problem: it is too much of a cosy family. As in golf, there is a lingering assumption that the players are upstanding individuals who wouldn’t dirty their hands with steroids, EPO or human growth hormone.

    “The same attitude feeds through into the International Tennis Federation’s flimsy anti-doping programme, which was comprehensively exposed this week by an investigation in the French newspaper L’Equipe.
    “In its number of samples, both of blood and urine, tennis lies in last place among the major sports,” said the report. “The whole anti-doping community jeers at the inconsistency of the testing regime, where positive cases disturb the tranquillity of the ITF’s ivory tower. When [ITF president] Francesco Ricci-Bitti claims that tennis is a sport of skill where doping does not achieve anything, it makes you weep.”

    NB: The above appeared before Wada commented on CNN

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    • Snap ritb. I’ve just this minute used exactly the same phrase on the FB thread.

      Do WADA test players when they are playing exhibition matches? I bet they love to jab that needle in really, really hard until he squeals.

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    • ^^^Feli Lopez said as much in a recent interview. Expect to see a Peter Bodo blog calling Novak a whiner, NOT. Only Rafa whines, you see, lol…………

      For shame.

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