Djokovic Segment On Sixty Minutes

joekapa

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NoleFam said:
I don't care for Jon Wertheim but the interview was ok but of course he had to take the interview to Fedal territory like he hasn't talked about them over and over. He has to be tired of those kinds of questions or bringing up them being more popular. Then, he had to bring up racket smashes like this is something that is not common when so many players do it. So it still had his biased slant which I expected. Djokovic is a more patient and better man than me because no way would I sit down in an interview with this guy after his comments.
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Overall I think it was a good interview.
 
joekapa

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Aussie Darcy said:
If only the journalist asked Novak why he broke the law in Serbia by going out while Covid positive to see children and vulnerable people while infectious. Djokovic didn’t even tell his L’equipe interviewer that he was infectious with Covid during his interview. That’s popular hey?
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He came out on top from the whole Covid story.
 
pirhaksar

pirhaksar

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Lauren_Girl' said:
Lol, again this? You're still telling lies about this 24 months later? Your obsession is quite scary. Are you from Serbia? Don't be silly. These events "happened" in 2nd half of December 2021. It wasn't March-June 2020 anymore, when everyone with covid had to stay home, isolate, wear masks and respect social distancing. Things are more clear today. Everyone freaked out in 2020 but nobody cared anymore in 2021, let alone in December. Most countries didnd't even have clear and specific laws starting the 2nd half of 2021. Balkan countries had the most flexible laws, even more than US. Everyone can go out in public with covid, it doesn't shock anybody anymore. Many teens in my nephew's school have asymptomatic covid, the parents still send them to school. Most people still go to work with covid, unless they're really sick with fever. It doesn't shock anybody. Regarding Djokovic, there were a few rumors about the Serbia law but most articles came from foreign sources and turned out to be incorrect. Officially there were never any clear laws in December 2021 so he couldn't break anything, especially knowing he didn't even know. You are completely making things up once again. For the event with the children he had not even received the result of his test. The day of this event, he took 2 antigenic tests and they were negative. He was asymptomatic, thus zero reason to suspect he had covid. The result (positive) of the PCR test was known after this event. There were enough proofs to back it up. And all the children and people from that event tested negative. For the L'Equipe interview you're not telling the whole story. He didn't go out. The interview happened his own studio in Belgrade. There was only 1 person and that interviewer was a friend. Interviewer confirmed that they wore a mask and respected social distancing, he tested negative and they talked about it later, they were absolutely fine. Then he stayed home for 5 days (even if technically he didn't have to). Most people aren't going to be shocked that he did an interview with a journalist knowing that most of these people were freely circulating with covid anyway. Why should HE be held to different standards from other people? Not sure why it would change his popularity. He IS popular all around the world, not just in Serbia. The record of attendance in EVERY Slams in 2023 shows a high level of interest for his matches. And so many magazine and online polls will tell you he is more popular than Federer or Nadal in 2023, if you want to ignore them that's your choice.
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Jeez dude it’s ok. Writing all of that is not going to change the posters opinion. Have you seen their posting history. Don’t waste your time. That said Djokovic did fcuk it up and also apologized for it. The nuances and what exactly went down or even the severity of said events don’t really matter when it comes to fans and haters. Damage was done. We can accept his apology and hope he is more careful in the future. The people that hate him want him to be treated like a serial killer perhaps jailed and banned from tennis, I doubt even that would satisfy them. You are not going to change their minds over a blog comment.
 
marc45

marc45

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Aussie Darcy said:
If only the journalist asked Novak why he broke the law in Serbia by going out while Covid positive to see children and vulnerable people while infectious. Djokovic didn’t even tell his L’equipe interviewer that he was infectious with Covid during his interview. That’s popular hey?
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this was the question he missed, pulled his punch there

people do need to understand, this isn't an interview for people here...this is the most popular news show in America....they did do Novak once before but for non-tennis fans or very casual ones they need to hear the stories for the first time and they have to fit into a 13 minute time frame...many watching probably don't even know who Djokovic is...it's still very good for tennis whenever they do a piece like this
 
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Niekotokio

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Hypo Crisis said:
Do you remotely have an idea how silly it looks when Indian guy lectures Serbian person how nationalistic Novak and his Serbian fans are ?
It's like accusing Brazilians for supporting their footbal team on a national level to be nationalistic.
There is left and right wing in Serbia as in any other country. Idk what leftist do in Spain or Sui, but in Serbia they act like Fedal fanatics - constant deranged attacks on Djokovic with made up stories and same copied "he will never be loved as..." bs.
Every sport person represents his country and every country is proud of their famous arhletes. I see nothing wrong in that. And in Serbia it is THE SAME as in any other country, people are not worshipping Djokovic to the point they wanna have him as president, what kind of sickening picture some of you have in your heads ? We did not came out from caves in 2011, we had plenty worldwide famous scientists, writers, sport icons, clubs, artists, actors, movie directors and tennis players before Djokovic.
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I'll be honest - not a single sports star in my country does practically any charity work. And even vice versa - they expect support from the government: money, land, political positions. You're lucky, but you don't even realize it
 
pirhaksar

pirhaksar

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marc45 said:
this was the question he missed, pulled his punch there

people do need to understand, this isn't an interview for people here...this is the most popular news show in America....they did do Novak once before but for non-tennis fans or very casual ones they need to hear the stories for the first time and they have to fit into a 13 minute time frame...many watching probably don't even know who Djokovic is...it's still very good for tennis whenever they do a piece like this
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But the point is let’s say he does ask that question. What does one who hates Djokovic expect to hear from him? He will give the PR friendly answer, say he is sorry and should have done better. But then again he already did that which they won’t accept or want anyway. So largely pointless question and response.
 
Hypo Crisis

Hypo Crisis

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Niekotokio said:
I'll be honest - not a single sports star in my country does practically any charity work. And even vice versa - they expect support from the government: money, land, political positions. You're lucky, but you don't even realize it
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We are lucky and most of us know how lucky we are, I just can't understand hate from some ppl in my country towards him even though they know approximately the amount of money and help he provided unselfishly.
Bigger picture is more important in the end, not did he play more effortless tennis than former best player or did he yell towards his box in frustration.
 
nolefam_2024

nolefam_2024

Talk Tennis Guru
Hypo Crisis said:
Do you remotely have an idea how silly it looks when Indian guy lectures Serbian person how nationalistic Novak and his Serbian fans are ?
It's like accusing Brazilians for supporting their footbal team on a national level to be nationalistic.
There is left and right wing in Serbia as in any other country. Idk what leftist do in Spain or Sui, but in Serbia they act like Fedal fanatics - constant deranged attacks on Djokovic with made up stories and same copied "he will never be loved as..." bs.
Every sport person represents his country and every country is proud of their famous arhletes. I see nothing wrong in that. And in Serbia it is THE SAME as in any other country, people are not worshipping Djokovic to the point they wanna have him as president, what kind of sickening picture some of you have in your heads ? We did not came out from caves in 2011, we had plenty worldwide famous scientists, writers, sport icons, clubs, artists, actors, movie directors and tennis players before Djokovic.
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It doesn't look silly at all. My country has nationalists as well and I don't support them. Forget your left and right wing propaganda. I don't like extreme anything and nationalists are extreme patriots. Like those people in t shirt saying Serbia vs the world.
 
nolefam_2024

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Red Rick said:
Yeah Novak, I'm sure it's because you have belief, not because you're a million times better at the tennis than me.
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Brother. Nole wouldn't play with you even if you are part of the make a wish list.

The quote is for Nole vs his peers inside top 10/top 5. Not you vs Nole.

But you can have same attitude vs your peers.
 
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big ted

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Holmes said:
They were not while playing.
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roger retired 2 years ago and rafa hasnt played in a year & theyre still not friends with novak so your point is moot :)
rafa and roger also played alot of charity matches together. djokovic did not with them..
face it - roger and rafa are friends but not with djokovic.. djoko has all the record breaking numbers.
is that not enough for you djoko fans?
 
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djoko fans trying to prove hes the most popular like trump tried to prove his "huge" inauguration crowd numbers LOL
 
Hypo Crisis

Hypo Crisis

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nachiket nolefam said:
It doesn't look silly at all. My country has nationalists as well and I don't support them. Forget your left and right wing propaganda. I don't like extreme anything and nationalists are extreme patriots. Like those people in t shirt saying Serbia vs the world.
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Serbia vs the world is a joke t shirt. I am not saying some ppl don't consider it seriously (as you managed to do so), but they are in minority.
Concerning Serbian nationalism, must I remind you that in Serbia there are more different nationalities and religious groups than in any other country in region. Further more, any foreign guest that comes in Serbia unanimously emphasize almost insane hospitality they recieved.
When you have that facts in perspective, you can't talk about aggressive nationalism but plain sport patriotism. Which also bothers some people, especially those who have unfinished political business and some territorial aspirations toward Serbia.
Again, as someone from distant country as yourself, I can't expect that you will understand our culture, but please at least restrain yourself of explaining to person who lives there what are Serbian fans doing. As I suspected, you haven't got slightest idea what is a joke, what is spite, what is that drives Serbian ppl here, as much as I am not ever giving myself such luxury to explain you anything about Indian ppl. And I find Spanish nationalistic/patriotic fans here to have natural drive if they root for Spanish players. Or any other fans from some nation who rush here if their countryman does something good in tennis. There will be lot of Italians as there were Btits while Murray was playing great. So what. Don't judge that.
 
ghostofMecir

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Hypo Crisis said:
Serbia vs the world is a joke t shirt. I am not saying some ppl don't consider it seriously (as you managed to do so), but they are in minority.
Concerning Serbian nationalism, must I remind you that in Serbia there are more different nationalities and religious groups than in any other country in region. Further more, any foreign guest that comes in Serbia unanimously emphasize almost insane hospitality they recieved.
When you have that facts in perspective, you can't talk about aggressive nationalism but plain sport patriotism. Which also bothers some people, especially those who have unfinished political business and some territorial aspirations toward Serbia.
Again, as someone from distant country as yourself, I can't expect that you will understand our culture, but please at least restrain yourself of explaining to person who lives there what are Serbian fans doing. As I suspected, you haven't got slightest idea what is a joke, what is spite, what is that drives Serbian ppl here, as much as I am not ever giving myself such luxury to explain you anything about Indian ppl. And I find Spanish nationalistic/patriotic fans here to have natural drive if they root for Spanish players. Or any other fans from some nation who rush here if their countryman does something good in tennis. There will be lot of Italians as there were Btits while Murray was playing great. So what. Don't judge that.
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Look at your long paragraph upon paragraph comments about Serbia and nationalism — it kind of proves all the memes.
 
MichaelNadal

MichaelNadal

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ghostofMecir said:
Look at your long paragraph upon paragraph comments about Serbia and nationalism — it kind of proves all the memes.
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Hypo Crisis

Hypo Crisis

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ghostofMecir said:
Look at your long paragraph upon paragraph comments about Serbia and nationalism — it kind of proves all the memes.
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Lol you just proved my point with this statement of yours. You beat my case with length of my posts, not by substance ? Well bravo.
If you wanted to be more ignorant than this, you just couldn't.
Oh and btw, I am glad Michael liked your post over something that has nothing to do with game of tennis. He is showing his colors, behind all those smileys and wrestling gifs lies a hateful & tormented person.
 
ghostofMecir

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Hypo Crisis said:
Lol you just proved my point with this statement of yours. You beat my case with length of my posts, not by substance ? Well bravo.
If you wanted to be more ignorant than this, you just couldn't.
Oh and btw, I am glad Michael liked your post over something that has nothing to do with game of tennis. He is showing his colors, behind all those smileys and wrestling gifs lies a hateful & tormented person.
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Hypo Crisis said:
Creep, I learned a long time ago that you most devoted Rafa soldiers are not picky about ways of attacking someone you hate. It is important to make him look bad, even if it's bringing up things not related to tennis.
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Brother, look at these replies. “Hateful”? “Tormented”? “Make him look bad”? “Devoted Rafa soldiers”? You’re proving the point. @MichaelNadal isn’t hateful.

Your choice of diction exudes the sentiments of a core group of rabid nationalists who view all of this through a lens of an “us vs. them war”; this group takes offense to anything it deems even slightly critical of Djokovic or his fanbase almost at a religious, cult-like level.
 
Hypo Crisis

Hypo Crisis

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ghostofMecir said:
Brother, look at these replies. “Hateful”? “Tormented”? “Make him look bad”? “Devoted Rafa soldiers”? You’re proving the point. @MichaelNadal isn’t hateful.

Your choice of diction exudes the sentiments of a core group of rabid nationalists who view all of this through a lens of an “us vs. them war”; this group takes offense to anything it deems even slightly critical of Djokovic or his fanbase almost at a religious, cult-like level.
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Listen "brother", I am very well aware who are you and who is Michael, so don’t try showing me any examples since all you 2 with some other lowlifes here are doing is to derail anything that is remotely connected with Djokovic stature, game, results, including his fans.
That is all about your profile.
I would never sink so low to call Nadal fans nationalists no matter how Spanish they are, since we need to have some level here.
You otoh, you are allowed to address Novak fans as you prefer on a given day. They can be rapists, murderers, fascists, blah blah, you don't care and guess nobody cares.
But guess what, the only player in history who was actually stabbed with a knife came from Serbia, and deranged attacker was a fan of belowed GOAT from civilized country. That was released from prison after only 6 months !
That is how nationalistic some are proven to be, and that is what you will never see from Djokovic fans.
 
ghostofMecir

ghostofMecir

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Hypo Crisis said:
Listen "brother", I am very well aware who are you and who is Michael, so don’t try showing me any examples since all you 2 with some other lowlifes here are doing is to derail anything that is remotely connected with Djokovic stature, game, results, including his fans.
That is all about your profile.
I would never sink so low to call Nadal fans nationalists no matter how Spanish they are, since we need to have some level here.
You otoh, you are allowed to address Novak fans as you prefer on a given day. They can be rapists, murderers, fascists, blah blah, you don't care and guess nobody cares.
But guess what, the only player in history who was actually stabbed with a knife came from Serbia, and deranged attacker was a fan of belowed GOAT from civilized country. That was released from prison after only 6 months !
That is how nationalistic some are proven to be, and that is what you will never see from Djokovic fans.
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Wow—more proof. Absolutely unhinged.
 
Rosstour

Rosstour

G.O.A.T.
Holmes said:
They were not while playing.
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Got proof of this, or is this just another pile of BS you made up to make Fed look bad?

The first gesture was made by Federer, to invite Nadal to sit in his box in 2004 as a 17yo.

https://www.**************.org/tenn...rold-rafael-nadal-sat-in-roger-federer-s-box/
 
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big ted

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Doubles specialist

Rookie
Hypo Crisis said:
It's somewhat insulting and racist.
Because, can you imagine same thing for Fed or Nadal ? They are popular as much in their countries as Novak is in his, but nobody is pushing such story for them.
Imagine saying Pete Sampras should candidate for White House :laughing:
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The biggest difference is Novak has done way more for his country than Fed or Nadal; granted Spain and Switzerland are way better off so they never had the opportunity or the need to do what Novak is doing. Look up the mining company Rio Tinta; they are the reason Novak got kicked out of the AUssie Open last year. In short they are one of the largest mining companies in the world based in Australia I believe and everywhere they go they destroy everything; they wanted to come to Serbia and Novak was a big reason and huge advocate to get rid of them and why they didn't get the contract so they got booted. This cost them billions; to say the least they weren't happy Well guess who made the decision to have the final say on Novaks visa to get into Australia the minister of Affairs I think is his title. Well guess what board he sits on...... you guessed it Rio Tinta. Not everything is at it seems. Federer has given so much of his time and money to better humanity and kids in Africa as that is where he felt the help was needed cant fault the guy for that.
 
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