Novak Djokovic

A page and forum to discuss all things Novak Djokovic.

Djokovic warming up for his match

Current ranking: 1

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

Next tournament: Rome Masters

51 Comments on Novak Djokovic

    • I don’t think you have to worry about that @chloro, Ricky’s got Tenngrand covered.

      Staying or leaving is an individual choice, as it should be. Would be pretty arrogant for anyone to presume to influence other people’s choices, don’t you think?

      Have a good one!!

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  3. vamosrafa says:
    January 13, 2015 at 5:59 pm
    @NNY, you are absolutely right about Rafa being great at turning defense into offence! who said Rafa is second to anyone in that category? I guess he is the best!

    vamosrafa, are you sure this is well sourced and substantiated?

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  4. The way to keep some posters here is not to put Rafa’s case. That is against the rules and wrong in their eyes. If someone says Rafa is not the best claycourter of all time, no one has the right to disagree.

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but some people think that some are more entitled than others.

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    • “Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but some people think that some are more entitled than others.”

      Couldn’t have put it any better @nadline10. One to grow on for sure.

      Vamos!

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  6. Sigh………….
    To paraphrase Bill Maher, if people need to be reassured that other posters love them under threat of leaving, sounds more like an abusive relationship going on than basic friendship.

    Can’t wait for Oz…………………

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  7. vr: thank you and yes I will stick around AO and hopefully for the entire duration. I mean, if and when Rafa loses earlier in a tournament sometimes I do not continue to pay attention as much to the rest of the tournament and TG… depending on who else is playing. It is Rafa who got me back to following tennis and I’ve continue to have mostly the same tunnel vision now. Some exceptions made for guys like murrayboy as my wife and me like to call our second favorite male tennis player.

    ritb, what I wrote about make sure we do not lose people… was tongue in cheek, and not about me :-).

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    • chloro, I can understand. It really is never the same when rafa exits a tournament! I can totally relate to it. I hope we can watch him lift the trophy this time 🙂

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      • vr,
        careful,
        wishing for rafa to lift the double-career slam trophy?
        traitor!
        you should veil more carefully your rafa-hatred and your elevating his rivals beyond reason.

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  8. No country for old men… watched it twice in a row when I first came across it. I enjoy and admire Xavier in various roles and in this one he played that cold psycho so credibly. He was excellent too in Biutiful – a movie I absolutely loved but don’t want to see again – I think it’s the kind of movie whose magic and feeling works only the first time, I’m glad I saw it on the big screen.

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      • hawkeye,
        In chosing when to watch it just keep in mind it is beautiful, full of feeling and humanity, soulful, and very sad. The music helps a lot, I bought the soundtrack, something I rarely do, and the liner notes have an interesting story of how that music came to be made for the movie. Anyway, coming back to the movie, it is of that kind and worth watching on the day you want to immerse yourself in it. Not just a nice entertainment type of flick.

        No Country… I think it was one of the best. And portrays how usually those psychopaths and sociopaths among us are usually like that: don’t look like anything special, pedestrian, not worked up, etc. Chilling.

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      • As I thought. As I grow older, I find it harder to watch very sad movies as there is already plenty enough sadness in the real world.

        OK, Ricky has made his point so for non-Nole related posts…

        I’m off this thread, GOT IT!!!!

        #MemoryLane

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  10. “I had a tough couple days but it’s all behind me now. I’m ready.”

    This does not bode well for Djokovic. His preparation has been disrupted and his conditioning will be put under a very stern test in the hot conditions.

    With rafa struggling for form and djokovic not having the ideal prep, fed might take the advantage and win no.18. i really wish it does not happen that way! Come on rafa, just your game and find your form. If you are able to do that, you are too good for anyone.

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  12. I just find Djokovic so sad, his desire to be like is so sad.

    http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2015/02/friendly-four-djokovic-looking-repair-relations-murray-keep-close-federer-nadal/53929/#.VNGrBE39nIU

    “Djokovic sees a connection between the top four players, and suggested he also wants to spend more time with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal as they further along their careers.

    “I do look at him, Rafa and Roger as my friends, honestly, because I see them so much, more than my parents and sometimes more than my wife. There is this special relationship that has been created with the number of years that we spend on the tour together,” said Djokovic.

    “Yes, we are rivals and of course you can’t really sit down and have dinners and chat about some intimate things because tomorrow you’re going to be on the court fighting for the biggest trophies. So at this point of our careers maybe that intimate and close relationship is not possible yet. But we’re all humans at the end of the day and I think we should consider that human side as a priority before sport.”

    Just get on with the business of winning, Djoko, enough with the cringe – worthy whining. I wanna spend more time with Rafa, Fed, blah, blah, blah……….they are busy, with their own lives mate!

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  13. Rafa is not interested in spending more time with his workmates i.e Federer and Djoker he wants to spend his precious time with his real friends that he’s known all his life and grew up with and can relate to and who speak his language.

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  14. Bogdan Obradovic retorts to Mats Wilander´s comments on Djokovic: ´He has an inferiority complex´

    Serbian Davis Cup captain Bogdan Obradovic has come out in full defence of Novak Djokovic, against Mats Wilander’s comments about the Australian Open champion’s attitude. Speaking to the Serbian publication, ‘Novosti’, Obradovic stated, “Nole is a young tennis player, who got good results for many years. He has maturity and he showed his maturity with the 6-0 in the fourth set of the Australian Open Men’s final.

    “Unfortunately it was commented that Novak feigned injuries, and he used tricks against Murray. The firsts to do so this were Mats Wilander and Martina Navratilova”, continued Obradovic. Speaking about the Swede, the Serbian added, “He has a huge inferiority complex. Eurosport should take someone else. This is not the first time. For a lot of years he has been rude to Nole. If he played today, it would be one as Alexandr Dolgopolov, no offense to the Ukrainian. A tennis player without any chance of winning a Grand Slam.”

    “Wilander and Navratilova should be ashamed. What they said has nothing to do with the sport. Maybe because Djokovic comes from a small country like Serbia. We have never hated anyone, we fought only against those who attacked us. Thanks to a Serb, Tesla, all of them have electricity. From Tesla to Djokovic, we showed what we are worth”,
    he concluded.

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  15. How Novak Djokovic can make you a better friend, colleague and spouse
    Self-improvement isn’t about making our best better – but about making our worst less bad.

    BY ED SMITH PUBLISHED 19 FEBRUARY, 2015 – 11:17

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    Novak Djokovic at the Australian open. Photo: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
    Novak Djokovic at the Australian open. Photo: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
    Can explaining how the tennis player Novak Djokovic wins so many matches lead us to live better lives as employees, parents, spouses and friends? It might sound crazy but I think it can.

    Djokovic at his best is absolutely brilliant. That’s not the point. The astonishing thing is that when Djokovic is below par, when his game is out of kilter, he is still very good indeed. That is where he steals a margin on his competitors. His best form rivals anyone’s best. But his worst is definitely better than anybody else’s worst. Djokovic’s baseline (the tennis overtones are coincidental) is the highest in tennis and perhaps anywhere in world sport.

    We tend to think of brilliance in terms of peaks of inspiration, what athletes refer to as “the zone”. This calm yet euphoric state is the focus of most sports psychology and the nirvana promised by the lucrative sport-business lecture circuit. At least as important, however, is how good you are when you are completely out of the zone. Many top players are unstoppable when they are on form; only a tiny number are still hard to beat when they are bumping along the baseline of their performance range.

    Djokovic’s victory over Andy Murray in the final of the Australian Open last month was a classic case study. Murray played superbly for two sets of enthralling tennis. Had it been a boxing match, he would have clinched both rounds. During this phase of the match Murray was more exuberantly confident than I’ve ever seen him – punching the air, extravagantly nodding his head, calling out to his coaches: “I’ve got this!” Where Murray’s blood was up, Djokovic looked out of sorts, oddly muted. The champion was there for the taking, ready to be toppled. Then there was the annoying small detail: the score. This read: one set all, both decided by tie-break. Djokovic was clearly losing, we could all see that – everyone, that is, except the scoreboard.

    Consider Andy Murray’s experience of getting to that stage. He knew, in a match likely to swing several times in momentum, that this early stage was his period of ascendancy. In normal circumstances, a player does not exert as much energy when he is on top – because he is dominating the rallies, it is his opponent who does most of the running around. But against Djokovic, it rarely works out that way. He is so resilient in his bad spells, so hard to break down, that the process is almost equally exhausting for both players. Then, when Djokovic does click back into gear, he finds himself playing against a diminished opponent, both physically and mentally.

    The question of whether Djokovic unsettled Murray by faking an injury has been overstated. Where Djokovic certainly did unsettle Murray was by taking him to the brink of exhaustion, even when it felt like Murray was winning. Beating Djokovic is like climbing the north face of the Eiger: there are no easy footholds on the sheer ice. Djokovic’s high baseline suffocates his opponents by making them play at an uncomfortably high altitude for hours, until – oxygen-deprived and disorientated – they crash back down to earth.

    We often explain consistency in psychological terms. But temperament and technique are inseparable. When I jotted down a list of sportsmen with exceptionally high baselines – the Italian footballer Paolo Maldini, the South African cricketer Jacques Kallis, the New Zealand rugby player Richie McCaw and the Spanish footballer Xavi Hernandez – they all had superb technique in common. Djokovic, too, has the best all-round technique in tennis. The most under­rated benefit of great technique is that it reduces the burden of anxiety. A player with great technique might lose but he is less likely to collapse.

    “Technique is for an off-day,” the conductor Christopher Seaman told me recently. After all, when you’re in the zone, technique disappears and pure instinct takes over. Inside Conducting, Seaman’s superb book on his craft, is an expansion of that theme – how to balance the deliberate and the instinctive.

    I remember talking in the late 1990s to Matthew Parris, then in full flow as the Times’s daily parliamentary sketchwriter. “What’s the hallmark of a great journalist?” I wondered. One aspect of his reply, flinty and unsentimental, surprised me: “Editors want to know that when you’re having a bad day, you’ll still be competent.” But Parris was right: there are many more journalists capable of being very good on their good days than there are columns to go around.

    Howard Marks, the legendary American investor, has explored a similar point about exposure to financial risk. It’s not just how good you are in the good times, it is how moderate you are in the bad times. Nor does the conventional concept of averages capture the risks of a sudden decline in performance. “Never forget the six-foot-tall man,” Marks points out, “who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet on average.”

    What can we, in civilian life, learn from the implications of a high baseline? Most of life is co-operative rather than competitive. Our bad days lead not to our own defeat but to the subtle diminution of the rooms we occupy. At our worst, we dampen the family mood at breakfast, reduce the optimism of the workplace and undermine the warmth of the evening.

    But by how much? That is an undervalued criterion in gauging a good life. Every­one suffers fluctuations in mood; some people hide it better than others and, in the process, imperceptibly though significantly improve the lives of everyone around them.

    I wonder if the eulogy “At his best, he was very good” should be replaced by “At his worst, he was better than most”.

    http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/02/how-novak-djokovic-can-make-you-better-friend-colleague-and-spouse

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