Novak Djokovic’s dad and mom Dijana and Srdjan have performed a vital function within the tennis legend’s profession, however how a lot have you learnt in regards to the Serbian’s mom and father?
The 37-year-old, who’s at the moment competing at Wimbledon, has usually been supported by his dad and mom throughout matches, significantly in his earlier years on tour.
After successful a record-extending twenty fourth Grand Slam title on the 2023 US Open, Djokovic paid tribute to his dad and mom for giving him the chance to be an expert tennis participant.
“Coming from a really tough circumstances in adversities throughout 90s, couple of wars in our nation and with the ability to push by way of that, particularly for my dad and mom, giving a number of sacrifice to assist me to play. Love you, thanks a lot,” he stated in the course of the trophy ceremony.
“To assist me to play the game that may be very costly sport and, at the moment very costly, not accessible, not reasonably priced, however you already know, I fell in love with tennis.
“Nobody has performed tennis in my household earlier than, so it was fairly a selection, I need to say. However unbelievable resilience, simply perception from my dad and mom, from all of the individuals round me all these years.”
This resilience is undoubtedly a high quality Djokovic inherited and has showcased all through his astonishing profession as he has turn out to be the participant many regard as the best within the sport’s historical past.
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Who’re Novak Djokovic’s dad and mom?
Novak Djokovic was born on 22 Might 1987 to father Srdjan Djokovic and mom Dijana Djokovic in Belgrade, Serbia, which was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the time.
Srdjan Djokovic was born and grew up in northern Kosovo to an ethnically Serbian household and later moved to Belgrade.
He was an expert skier and ski teacher and met his future spouse, Dijana Zagar — who comes from a Croatian household — on the Brezovica winter resort. The pair owned and ran a restaurant and a sports activities tools store within the Serbian highlands.
Djokovic hailed the massive sacrifices his dad and mom made throughout his childhood to assist his tennis desires, regardless of the household having no background within the sport.
“I do not forget that at one level, my dad took out a ten Deutsche Mark invoice and put it on the desk and he stated, ‘That is all we bought’. You realize, which is equal to 10 {dollars} these days, perhaps even much less,” Djokovic stated in an interview with Graham Bersinger in 2020.
“At the moment, it was actually not about tennis, it was extra about us surviving as a household and having bread to eat in the course of the day. However in some way my dad and mom discovered a means they usually had been an amazing group.
“For a very long time, they did disguise they usually succeeded in hiding a number of issues that made them undergo. They needed to sacrifice to ensure that me to pursue my love for tennis, my love for sport. There have been sure issues that they might not simply disguise from me, I might clearly see.”
The Serbian added: “My mother was and nonetheless is the pillar of the household, she has that stability and holds everybody collectively.
“She’s an extremely sturdy lady and really an inspiring lady that has needed to deal with 4 males in a really small house with all our completely different wants and actions. She did every part one lady might probably do. She’s a superwoman, actually.
“At the moment, if you had a greenback invoice of 10 Deutsche Mark for a complete household of 5, it took a number of guts to stay with the imaginative and prescient of supporting me to turn out to be a profitable skilled tennis participant.
“On the court docket, once I in some way have to discover a means and discover that power, that’s the dad (Srdjan) in me.”
Srdjan Djokovic’s outspoken nature has made him a controversial determine, and he has not often held again when expressing his ideas on his son’s rivals — significantly Roger Federer.
In 2021, Srdjan claimed Federer “attacked” his son. Chatting with K1 TV, he stated: “15 years in the past, he (Federer) attacked my son when he was nonetheless younger at 18-19 years previous, he knew that somebody higher than him was coming.
“I stated then that he was an amazing champion, the perfect at the moment, however as a lot as he is a good champion, he’s additionally not an excellent man.”
Through the 2023 Australian Open, Djokovic’s father sparked outrage when he posed for photographs with a bunch of Vladimir Putin supporters. Nonetheless, Srdjan defined that this was unintentional and he was not conscious of who the group had been.
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