These are turbulent times in the world of tennis. Rafael Nadal just announced his retirement, Federer He only left it for two years and Alcaraz and sinful They fight to lead a new era. Meanwhile, there are long-term ones: Novak Djokovic. The Serbian tennis player continues at the highest level and despite the fact that younger players are able to knock him down from time to time, he starts as one of the big favorites in all the tournaments in which he participates.
To him 37 yearsyour steadfastness is commendable. “Belgrade is the city in Europe that has been destroyed and rebuilt the most times. I find that spirit inside me”. That phrase from Djokovic helps a lot to understand his character. In a recent interview with Argentine media La Nación, the Serbian spoke about his future, his present and much of his past.
A childhood in the middle of war
He grew up in 90 in one Belgradea city inhabited stages of war that marked an entire generation. Among them, a young man Novak who was born in ’87: “I remember standing in line with my grandfather at 5 in the morning to get bread for our whole family. My uncle, my grandfather, my aunt, my cousins, my brothers… Lived we all lived together in a small apartment because we had no other choice and those are the things that have become an important part of who I am, who I am today as a person.
Asked how hard it is to live war, Djokovic respond excited: “It’s scary. The worst thing a person can experience. It is the fear of the unknown. Never knowing if the next bomb will fall on your head. And so every day, the alarms, the sirens that wake us up every night when the planes approach. “We cry every night.”
His childhood experiences turned him into a person with a character and one stability that, at least on the track, apparently unbreakable. But there is something that makes you feel weak: “Children. My children, other children as well. I was always excited about children, but when I became a father… When I see children suffering, it breaks my heart, I feel depressed. purest beings on the planet and they deserve the best, they deserve a future and when I see these wars and everything that is happening… I lived through the war, my city was bombed day and night in for two and a half months. . “I see wars in other parts of the world, I don’t understand.”
Source: La Verdad
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