Novak Djokovic Talks Covid Vaccine, Media Disillusionment, and Rivalries While Playing in Rome Masters

The Serbian spoke about various topics with an Italian newspaper while playing the Masters in Rome.

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Novak Djokovic he always delivers interesting statements when speaking to the press and this time has not been the exception in the interview he has given to the medium Courier of It will be while participating in the Rome Masters 1000. The Serbian, current number 1 in the world, discussed various topics about his sports career and his personal life in recent years.

One of them is your choice of not applying the vaccine against Covid-19 that has prevented him from playing several tournaments, especially in North America, although he knows that from now on you can enter the United States after the nation eliminated the health emergency in recent weeks. This situation led him to spend a unpleasant chapter in 2022 in Australiawhere a whole novel was put together for his trip, then a deportation and then a return in 2023 as a champion.

“I suffered everything on my own skin. Many people have appreciated that I have been consistent, but 95% of everything that has been written or said on television in the last three years is completely false. I am not an anti-vaxxer and never in my life have I said that I am. I’m not pro-vaccines either. I am pro choice: I defend the freedom of a choice. It is a fundamental right. I explained it to the BBC once, when I got back from Australia, but they removed a lot of sentences, those that didn’t fit, So I decided not to talk about this story again“he commented.

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This, he pointed out, made him disillusioned with many media outlets and some journalists: “I have not spoken because I saw that everything he said was modified. When half of society is against you, then you see the true face of people. And many people have turned their faces elsewhere, many players and some tournament organizers“.

Another rather peculiar topic that the media outlet addressed was the fact that, apparently, Djokovic no longer performs the usual imitations of other players on the circuit, supposedly because Roger Federer He asked her to stop doing it.

“Federer has not asked me for that and I have not stopped doing the imitations. This year in Monte Carlo I have imitated Andy Murray, Daniil Medvedev and the rapper Snoop Dogg. I have never imitated someone to offend him, but for fun. I’ve also been asked a few times: like Lea Pericoli in Rome 2009 in front of Rafael Nadal. I did the imitation because Rafa won the tournament, if he had won I never would have done it. He would have thought: ‘If I imitate him after I’ve defeated him, Rafa will kill me’“.

This led to his being asked about his relationship with the Swiss: “We have never been friends, between rivals it is not possible, but we have not been enemies either. I have always had respect for Federer, he has been one of the greatest of all time. He’s had an extraordinary impact, but I haven’t been close to him.”

And about Nadal: “At the beginning we were going to eat together, about twice. But with him friendship is also impossible. I have admired and esteemed him greatly. Thanks to him and Federer I have grown and become who I am, this will unite us forever, for this I feel grateful for them. Nadal is a part of my lifeIn the last 15 years I have seen him more than my mother,” he said.

Writing Match Tennis