Nole in line with Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan

Novak Djokovic’s father Srdjan (60) said in an interview with the Croatian newspaper Sports News pulled from the leather and put his Filius in a row with legends such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods: He has long outstripped his rivals Roger Federer (39) and Rafael Nadal (34). Djokovic Senior also complained about the lack of fair play prizes for the Djoker.

“He is already the greatest of all time, given the number of weeks he was number one, given the ATP Masters 1000 title,” said Srdjan Djokovic about the rivalry between the “Big Three” in men’s tennis. “All he is missing is Olympic gold and the two Grand Slam triumphs that he will celebrate this year,” said the father of the world number one.

Federer and Nadal have 20 Grand Slam titles, Djokovic has 18 major titles on the credit side after his success at the Australian Open. At the beginning of March he broke Federer’s world number record, who had occupied first place in the ranking list for a total of 310 weeks.

Srdjan Djokovic went even further: “He is the best and everything in the world of tennis depends on him. He can lose, but not because his opponent is better than him, but because he allows him to defeat him”, he praised his son. And made the following prognosis: “His career will take one to one and a half, a maximum of three years, until he has all the records.”

This is another reason why the Djoker has long since been compared with absolute legends of the sport such as Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods and no longer with his contemporaries on the court: “He’s in this category. He’s one of the best athletes of all time, not just the best tennis player . “

In addition, his son is not only a role model on the pitch: “Who, apart from Novak, hugs the opponent when he loses and says ‘Congratulations, you were better than me’? Others hardly do that,” said Srdjan Djokovic, who was interested in the ATP annoyed: “Even so, he never received the ATP prize for fair play once. How often has Federer received it? At least 15 times. That is terrible!”

It’s not the first time that the belligerent Djokovic senior has stepped into the breach for his son: Last June, for example, he blamed Grigor Dimitrov for the corona cases on the Adria Tour organized by Nole. And he gave Federer the advice to go “skiing” in view of his almost 40 years of age: “He can feel the breath of Nadal and Novak on the back of his neck, he simply cannot accept that they will overtake him”.