Goran Ivanisevic : "Novak Djokovic will achieve "immortality"

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"I am part of a team that writes history," Ivanisevic said in an interview with Croatian paper Vecernji. "If Djokovic wins the US Open this year and collects all four Grand Slams in the same year, he enters immortality, the rank of Rod Laver, although it is much harder to achieve such success in the 21st century than in Laver's time. It was not easy for him, five or six years ago no one could have imagined that Novak would be in a position to make this historic feat."

"Novak appeared at the top of world tennis after Federer and Nadal, when they had already gained a large number of fans," said the Croat. "Then a Balkan man came and messed up all their accounts."

"Novak says what he thinks, and many don't like it," said Ivanisevic. "He speaks five languages, he is extremely intelligent, he is interested in everything and has his own way of life. Some like the way he eats, some don't like it, some laugh at the meditation he is dedicated to, while he fully believes in it. I admire him. I watch him in the morning like practicing yoga for an hour and a half, in an indescribable, fascinating way."

"It seems to me that it is not desirable to have an opinion today," Djokovic's coach said. "The world should move for the better, but we are going in the opposite direction. If in the 21st century you can't say what you think, it's a disaster. Novak doesn't fit into that Western mould in which everything is arranged. He came from the Balkans where nothing is arranged and conquered them all."
 
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Sad that Goran who is an actual slam champ is reduced to this. Would be more interesting to hear him talk about his actual playing career. Sadly, I imagine he is actually getting more money now than he was as a player.
 

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"I am part of a team that writes history," Ivanisevic said in an interview with Croatian paper Vecernji. "If Djokovic wins the US Open this year and collects all four Grand Slams in the same year, he enters immortality, the rank of Rod Laver, although it is much harder to achieve such success in the 21st century than in Laver's time. It was not easy for him, five or six years ago no one could have imagined that Novak would be in a position to make this historic feat."

"Novak appeared at the top of world tennis after Federer and Nadal, when they had already gained a large number of fans," said the Croat. "Then a Balkan man came and messed up all their accounts."

"Novak says what he thinks, and many don't like it," said Ivanisevic. "He speaks five languages, he is extremely intelligent, he is interested in everything and has his own way of life. Some like the way he eats, some don't like it, some laugh at the meditation he is dedicated to, while he fully believes in it. I admire him. I watch him in the morning like practicing yoga for an hour and a half, in an indescribable, fascinating way."

"It seems to me that it is not desirable to have an opinion today," Djokovic's coach said. "The world should move for the better, but we are going in the opposite direction. If in the 21st century you can't say what you think, it's a disaster. Novak doesn't fit into that Western mould in which everything is arranged. He came from the Balkans where nothing is arranged and conquered them all."

What a genre disrespecting idiot he is.
 

nolefam_2024

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This Balcan vs the western mindset is laughable.

The small countries generally have inferiority complex and look at bigger countries with jealousy. Anything to stick to the powerful countries, and people from smaller countries rejoice. That's probably the whole man from balcan bs.

There is some truth to being from russocentric nation but nothing to do with his balcan heritage.

Shelton and Roddick are from USA, but they say it like it is. It's not exclusive to balcans and not at all missing from western countries. Only difference being, there are 100 more popular sportsman than Roddick and probably 50 more popular than Sampras in USA but in Serbia after Djokovic there are 1/2 and that too far behind. So he is idolized.
 

TimHenmanATG

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This Balcan vs the western mindset is laughable.

The small countries generally have inferiority complex and look at bigger countries with jealousy. Anything to stick to the powerful countries, and people from smaller countries rejoice. That's probably the whole man from balcan bs.

There is some truth to being from russocentric nation but nothing to do with his balcan heritage.

Shelton and Roddick are from USA, but they say it like it is. It's not exclusive to balcans and not at all missing from western countries. Only difference being, there are 100 more popular sportsman than Roddick and probably 50 more popular than Sampras in USA but in Serbia after Djokovic there are 1/2 and that too far behind. So he is idolized.
The ex-Yugoslavia countries are an absolute sh*t-show, though.

Reality isn't a black-and-white thing which one can just put in a comforting box.

Serbia, for example, were very hard done by during WWII (the ****-aligned Croats brutalised the Serbian people), yet the Serbs are/were clearly the aggressors, vis a vis Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo in the 1990s.
 

nolefam_2024

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The ex-Yugoslavia countries are an absolute sh*t-show, though.

Reality isn't a black-and-white thing which one can just put in a comforting box.

Serbia, for example, were very hard done by during WWII (the ****-aligned Croats brutalised the Serbian people), yet the Serbs are/were clearly the aggressors, vis a vis Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo in the 1990s.
I mean every single country has grudges. But smaller countries concentrate on singular pts like tennis in Serbia.
 

TimHenmanATG

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I mean every single country has grudges. But smaller countries concentrate on singular pts like tennis in Serbia.
Geopolitics exists independently, outside our emotions.

The country of Ireland, for example, only has a one-way "grudge" towards the UK .

Britain - where I live - doesn't have any meaningful adversaries, other than performative history...
 
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