Novak Djokovic polarizes.
With 23 Grand Slam titles, the Serb is statistically the best tennis player of all time.
And yet, especially in major tournaments like Wimbledon, there is always a discussion about whether Djokovic is also the greatest of all time.
Everyone can judge that for themselves. What is certain is that Djokovic, with his persistence, sometimes even obsession, and his almost insatiable thirst for success, has not only made friends in the tennis circus and among the fans. It is not uncommon for the current number two in the world to be whistled from the ranks, and Djokovic often reacts to this with provocations.
But it is also clear that Djokovic is one of the most complete and varied tennis players. An exceptional athlete. At the age of 36, the Serb can still easily take on the young competition in their early 20s. His mental strength is second to none, his psyche is his sharpest weapon.
It is extraordinary how Djokovic always manages to keep the tennis world in check, especially in the important tournaments.
He subordinates everything to success and leaves nothing to chance. And he keeps breaking new ground.
The Serb regularly causes astonishment and shaking of heads with his training methods. Djokovic’s penchant for esotericism often takes on bizarre traits, and critics accuse him of hocus-pocus.
Djokovic’s Sadomaso Training
“He’s not an easy guy, especially when things don’t go the way he wants. He always keeps you under stress,” says his coach Goran Ivanisevic about Djokovic and not the other way around.
Ivanisevic, himself a former world-class player, recently gave a behind-the-scenes look after Djokovic’s triumph at the French Open: “We started sadomaso training. It’s a new way of training: from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. He is a guy who always wants something. He’s a perfectionist. This brilliant mind that’s always missing something.”
Djokovic is always driven to be the best. Even at the age of 36, he still works like no other.
“This is the biggest secret of my career”
The perfectionist Djokovic is also always up to date when it comes to sports medicine, and has often played with a so-called Taopatch on his chest.
According to the manufacturer, this is a “nanotechnological device that converts the heat of the body into light, which in turn is sent to the nervous system”. This contributes to the “increase in athletic performance and concentration”.
“It helps me to do my best on the pitch,” Djokovic said in Paris and even said: “That’s the biggest secret of my career, otherwise I probably wouldn’t be sitting here.”
Novak Djokovic swears by nanotechnology
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The Serb has long sworn by the use of a pressure chamber. In this, the production of red blood cells is stimulated by simulating mountain air. It feels “like in a spaceship,” said Djokovic a few years ago.
Djokovic pours himself “Austrian” water
The winner of 94 titles also has a strict plan when it comes to nutrition, he eats vegan and gluten-free.
“My diet has not only changed my game, but also my life – my well-being. Going vegan makes me more aware and aware of my body on the pitch. I’ve rid my body of toxins, so all inflammation and other Things have disappeared that affected my energy levels,” Djokovic told Forbes magazine.
As for drinking, Djokovic has decided to ‘stop supporting bottled drinks’. Then a water with a “shot” is better: At the beginning of the year, the tennis ace became an investor in the Austrian company Waterdrop, which sells sugar-free fizzy cubes for tap water.
A guru and transformations
While approaches like this make sense, at least in part, the 36-year-old’s other practices raise eyebrows.
In 2016, for example, Djokovic brought the Spanish guru Pepe Imaz into the team as a spiritual advisor. In his environment, this was viewed with some skepticism, for example by his then coach Boris Becker. In 2018 Djokovic ended his collaboration with Imaz.
During the corona pandemic, when Djokovic, who was still not vaccinated, made headlines with the posse surrounding his entry to Australia, the tennis ace also came out as a fan of “energetic transformations”. He knows people who “through the power of prayer, through the power of gratitude, have turned the most toxic food or maybe the most toxic water into the water with the greatest healing power,” Djokovic explained on Instagram at the time.
Djokovic’s “Himmel auf Erden”
Far more common are yoga and meditation, something Djokovic also practices.
“I like to spend time with myself, I like to meditate, I use conscious breathing techniques that put me in the right mood, I analyze my opponents and my own game,” said the Serb.
According to a “Eurosport” report, he sometimes gets his mental strength on the Visocica mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was renamed the “Pyramid of the Sun” by the American-Bosnian entrepreneur and esotericist Semir Osmanagic, while Djokovic describes the place as “heaven on earth”.
Djokovic does everything and much more for the heavenly feeling of success. Many of his methods may be controversial, but they seem to work for him. Success proves him right.
Or as former professional Andy Roddick once said so beautifully about Djokovic: “He takes your legs, then he takes your soul, then he digs your grave and then you’re dead.”
2023-07-13 15:15:54
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