![]() ![]() *Alcaraz 1-6 3-2 Djokovic Again, Djokovic goes in hard to the Alcaraz forehand and again he gets the result he wants, ball netted for 0-15 an ace quickly redeems the situation. But the Wimbledon crowd never really took to Connors and McEnroe until they started losing, which is as mindblowing now as then. I don’t think people refuse to admire his tennis, but for various reasons, some of which you list, he’s never quite connected with many of the people others have. Those things just amplified people’s prejudices against him - their mind had long been made up about him. Sure, some stuff like no vaccine and the Australia/Adria tour situation did not help his popularity, but he was mostly hated by the casual tennis fans (which is to say, *most* of them) way before any of that happened. And yet here is a man who invariably has warm victory/defeat speeches to impart, reads the room a lot better than people give him credit for at speaks (at least) seven languages (and does a lot for charidee)! And I say this as a Federer fan. Novak’s career will not be fully appreciated till he retires, maybe even a decade after he does so. The social media angle amplified this and made this almost a prerequisite to being a great sportsman, when in no tennis decade was this ever necessary? Remember how McEnroe/Connors/Nastase used to behave? Does anybody say they were anything other than great tennis players (Novak doesn’t berate the umpires or grab his crotch in front of the fans)? I don’t think so. ![]() They were nice middle-class kids from nice comfortable Western European middle class upbringing, with nice hair, and manners (I wouldn’t say Novak doesn’t have manners either?). “Since when was professional sport about being popular, and not, like, I dunno, WINNING? I think Fed and Nad are to ‘blame’ for this. “Re: Nole not winning any popularity stakes and people refusing to admire him for the insane tennis he is playing for over 15 years,” says James W. ![]() This, though, is excellent, a love hold completed with an ace, and Djokovic is back serving again seconds after fighting his arse off for a hold. *Alcaraz 1-6 4-3 Djokovic Alcaraz played two perfect points at the start of that game, but it was nowhere near enough. ![]()
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