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Bionic Poster
Djokovic's mentality improved immensely. He has often said that marriage and especially the birth of his son brought an incredible amount of stability to his career. When he returned after the birth of his son, he looked so mentally serene, confident and in control of his emotions. I felt that the moment he returned and spoke about how he has this very relaxed but still focused mindset and how having a family has helped him from an emotional and mental perspective.
Having such a strong powerful energy in his outside life for me created the Zen Djokovic, something I used to call him when he returned. He was checking out mentally less and less, while the frustrations were there at certain points, he was doing much better at gathering his emotions and channelling them into his tennis. He started to clutch out wins that he simply didn't have the mindset correct for in the previous seasons. The overall game was improving under the influence of Becker also, who helped him create a blue print for beating Nadal, among other things.
A good coach player relationship can do wonders, and Djokovic had an incredible amount of respect and admiration for Becker, who was a wealth of untapped knowledge in regards to not only strategies, but also the psychology of the game and how to deal with certain issues. There is no way the Djokovic of the past would have dealt with over 20K NYC fans out for his blood the way he did in 2015 for example. Becker gave him a drive and focus of his own, which only enhanced Novak's own aura out there.
The more he won, the more his aura grew, the more players felt beaten before they even played him, kind of like Federer and Nadal before him. He also grew more a player as far as shot selection was concerned to make up for a slight decline in his physicality that he had back in 2011.
Having such a strong powerful energy in his outside life for me created the Zen Djokovic, something I used to call him when he returned. He was checking out mentally less and less, while the frustrations were there at certain points, he was doing much better at gathering his emotions and channelling them into his tennis. He started to clutch out wins that he simply didn't have the mindset correct for in the previous seasons. The overall game was improving under the influence of Becker also, who helped him create a blue print for beating Nadal, among other things.
A good coach player relationship can do wonders, and Djokovic had an incredible amount of respect and admiration for Becker, who was a wealth of untapped knowledge in regards to not only strategies, but also the psychology of the game and how to deal with certain issues. There is no way the Djokovic of the past would have dealt with over 20K NYC fans out for his blood the way he did in 2015 for example. Becker gave him a drive and focus of his own, which only enhanced Novak's own aura out there.
The more he won, the more his aura grew, the more players felt beaten before they even played him, kind of like Federer and Nadal before him. He also grew more a player as far as shot selection was concerned to make up for a slight decline in his physicality that he had back in 2011.
Go hide you pathetic excuse of a fan.
