Djokovic won the Roland Garros championship ahead of Norway’s Casper Rudd, and reached the tough number, 23, amid worldwide tributes for the historic feat.
Djokovic also became the first tennis player in history to win all “Grand Slam” tournaments at least 3 times, heralding his impressive success on all types of floors.
After the feat, Djokovic refused to call it “the best in history”, because of his unrepeated record.
The humble Djokovic said calling him the greatest in history is an understatement of all the gaming legends that came before him, and each of them shone in a different era and period.
Who is Djokovic… “the crowned king of tennis”?
family
Djokovic was born in 1987 in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, to a Serbian father and a Croatian mother. He has a brother and a sister who played tennis professionally and couldn’t write hit lines like him. He started playing tennis at the age of 4, with a cork ball and a small racket. Djokovic’s family ran a fast food restaurant and owned a sports equipment store.
his childhood
Djokovic was sent to a tennis camp, aged 6, in the Serbian town of Novi Sad. Due to his incredible development in the sport, Djokovic was sent to a European tennis camp in Germany at the age of 12 on the recommendation of his coach in Serbia, who realized that going to Europe and following the best talents was the best solution to his explosive talent. In Germany, Djokovic spent 4 years, during which he began his career in the junior and youth championships, until he entered the world of professionalism in 2003, at the age of 16.
multilingual
Djokovic speaks 5 languages, which are Serbian, English, French, German and Italian.
love story
Djokovic met beautiful girl Jelena Ristic in high school in 2005, and he started dating her ever since. Djokovic stayed with Ristic until they married in the summer of 2014. Djokovic has a son and a daughter.
humanity
In 2007, he founded the Novak Djokovic Humanitarian Organization, which has built 50 schools in different regions of Serbia. When he won the Rome Masters in 2014, he donated the prize money to people affected by floods in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. During the corona pandemic, he donated 1 million euros to buy medical devices for hospitals in Serbia.
Business man
Djokovic started the investment world in 2005 when he first appeared in the world of tennis and handed over the management of the investment business to his father, Sardan, and his uncle, Goran. One of his works is “Novak Restaurant and Café”. It launched food products in 2015 under the name “Gocolife”. Opened a vegetarian restaurant called “Ikvita” in Monte Carlo. Djokovic bought an 80% stake in medical technology company Quant BioRez, which is working on a drug for people with Covid-19. He established a company run by his father and uncle, which invested in real estate, organized sporting and entertainment events, and distributed sporting goods.
His revolution against vaccines
During the Corona outbreak, Djokovic refused to receive Corona vaccines, stressing that he believed in freedom of choice and rejected the process of “forced vaccination”. His refusal to get vaccinated resulted in his exclusion from the 2022 Australian Open and 2022 US Open tennis tournaments, stripping him of two potential titles.
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