No Joke, No Choke: Jokester Djokovic Is New Tennis Jock
The talk has been going around for some time that Novak Djokovic would be the new It guy in tennis. Even he's been saying it. Then last summer, a decisive win over Federer had folks saying it was inevitable: Djokovic would one day win a Grand Slam. Federer's days of total domination were over.
Only noone sent Federer that memo at the end of last summer, as he won another U.S. Open. Going into this year's Australian, there was every reason to think that the Fed would win again. So what if he'd been injured and not playing much, as I think maybe I recall was the case? Except that, unlike some losers, Federer didn't get on a megaphone after he lost and shout this as loudly as he could above the fan's applause, much to his credit. Sometimes how you lose counts more than how you win.
Of course all this talk about Djokovic inevitably winning a Grand Slam wasn't inevitable until it actually happened, which it did Down Under at the 2008 Australian Open. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for one didn't think Djokovic winning a Grand Slam was inevitable, not in the first set anyway. But then, Djokovic turned things around. How exactly? How the heck would I know since it broadcast at 3:30 in the morning Eastern U.S. time? I will find out like every other tennis fan int he States when it rebroadcasts this afternoon.
I'm guessing that the key was Djokovic's awesome imitation of Australian Open champ Sharapova.
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