TIME magazine just released their list of the "100 Olympic Athletes to Watch" and Novak Djokovic was the only tennis baller to join the elite group.
Here's what the newsmagazine had this to say about the Serb:The world No. 3 ranked male tennis player, behind Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, Djokovic started the year by winning the Australian Open, and is known as much for ability to mimic his fellow pros as he is for his down-the-line backhand. He became the European champion by the time he was 14, and rose to world fame in 2007 as a runner-up at the U.S Open, reaching Wimbledon semis, and winning four out of five Master Series finals, beating Federer and Nadal along the way. The Olympics, he says, are the most important challenge of all. "That's how I see the Games, although many players wouldn't agree. There are four Masters Series every year, but the Olympics come only once in four years", he said.
Interesting that he beat out Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to make the list - what gives?
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"Interesting that he beat out Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to make the list - what gives?"
ReplyDeleteLooks to me as if - as usually happens with such magazine production specials - this list was made up in the month of March before the real tennis season got started, Nadal went into orbit and Djokovic's 'promise' was shown still to be no more than just that.. 'promise'.
"this list was made up in the month of March before the real tennis season got started"
ReplyDeleteSeconded. Certainly it went to press before Murray took him out in the Toronto semis.
I have an additional theory, but it's a sociological analysis that by the time people get really riled up about it will require stats, so I will not go into it at this time on such a civilized blog.
Besides, Rogi is carrying the Swiss flag on his birthday, and we all know the playing schedule.
It'll all be OK.