Milehigh5280
Professional
Great write up on the final by Brian Phillips of The Ringer.
https://www.theringer.com/platform/...k-djokovic-roger-federer-wimbledon-final-2019
"Now consider how things are for Djokovic. He wants that kind of love, and almost never gets it. When he wins Wimbledon, and struts forward, smirking, to make the crowd watch his excruciating grass-eating bit, the applause is … polite. Before then, nearly everyone in the stadium, and nearly everyone watching at home, millions of people around the world, were praying for him to lose. The player who most covets affection is the player from whom the crowd most stubbornly withholds its affection. I’m sorry, but that has to feel miserable. On some level, he’s playing in a nightmare, in match after match. A normal person would probably break down. What’s wrong with me? Why don’t they love me? Yet Djokovic somehow turns this scenario into a recipe for continual victory."
https://www.theringer.com/platform/...k-djokovic-roger-federer-wimbledon-final-2019
"Now consider how things are for Djokovic. He wants that kind of love, and almost never gets it. When he wins Wimbledon, and struts forward, smirking, to make the crowd watch his excruciating grass-eating bit, the applause is … polite. Before then, nearly everyone in the stadium, and nearly everyone watching at home, millions of people around the world, were praying for him to lose. The player who most covets affection is the player from whom the crowd most stubbornly withholds its affection. I’m sorry, but that has to feel miserable. On some level, he’s playing in a nightmare, in match after match. A normal person would probably break down. What’s wrong with me? Why don’t they love me? Yet Djokovic somehow turns this scenario into a recipe for continual victory."
