{"id":61601,"date":"2020-09-07T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/novak-djokovic-is-supposed-to-be-the-goat\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T02:43:00","slug":"novak-djokovic-is-supposed-to-be-the-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/novak-djokovic-is-supposed-to-be-the-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"#Novak Djokovic is supposed to be the GOAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Novak Djokovic is supposed to be the GOAT?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n This is a GOAT?<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic, world Number One and top seed at the US Open, the only one of the Big Three who didn\u2019t opt out this year, was meant to bring grandeur and legacy to a competition hollowed out by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Instead, he got himself disqualified for hitting an older lineswoman in the throat after swatting a ball in a peevish little fit.<\/p>\n

The lineswoman collapsed and clutched her throat, clearly struggling to breathe. What looked like a tap clearly struck like a bullet.<\/p>\n

Consider that Djokovic\u2019s fastest serve has been clocked at 122 m.p.h. His average backhand speed is 67.3 m.p.h.<\/p>\n

Imagine a hard tennis ball slamming into your Adam\u2019s app<\/a>le with even the lesser force.<\/p>\n

Anyone who\u2019s ever had the wind knocked out of them knows the terror of gasping for air. It\u2019s worse than the hit itself.<\/p>\n

So what did Djokovic do? After attempting to comfort the lineswoman \u2014 who gave him the most epic and deserved side-eye of 2020 \u2014 Djokovic argued that he should not, per the unambiguous rules, be disqualified.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe doesn\u2019t have to go to the hospital for this,\u201d he griped.<\/p>\n

Wow. Instead of expressing relief that she wasn\u2019t more grievously injured or killed, instead of humbly taking whatever penalty was coming his way, Djokovic whined like a toddler. Then he stood on the sidelines, head in hand, anxious over nothing but his own fate.<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s swat, by the way, was out of frustration that younger player Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta, ranked world No. 30 in men\u2019s singles, was making the Great Novak Djokovic fight to win that first (and last) set.<\/p>\n

It was all too reminiscent of Serena Williams\u2019 series<\/a> of on-court meltdowns at the 2018 US Open, her all-but-assured comeback sullied by the much younger phenom Naomi Osaka \u2014 who not only outplayed Williams but outmatched her in maturity, grace and sportsmanship.<\/p>\n

An otherwise fearsome warrior, the cowardly Djokovic slunk out of Queens rather than face the media<\/a> \u2014 another no-no that may cost him a $20,000 fine. He will also lose every ranking point he earned at the Open and will likely be fined an additional $250,000, his compensation for reaching the fourth round.<\/p>\n

In the short run, for a player of his stature and wealth, that\u2019s nothing. It\u2019s the damage to his reputation \u2014 as it is, Djokovic doesn\u2019t engender the respect that Roger Federer does or the exuberance that Rafael Nadal commands \u2014 that may be irreparable.<\/p>\n

This is, after all, a guy who got the coronavirus warning and threw a mask-less party for several of the world\u2019s top tennis players, then got coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently there\u2019s a pandemic . . .\u201d tweeted former tennis champ Andy Roddick.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the other thing: Djokovic doesn\u2019t seem widely liked among his peers. When no less than one-time professional tennis villain John McEnroe says that after Sunday\u2019s incident, Djokovic \u201cis going to be the bad guy for the rest of his career,\u201d you best believe it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is obviously a stain that he\u2019s not going to be able to erase,\u201d McEnroe continued, \u201cwhether he likes it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll never be able to erase it because Djokovic only cares about Djokovic. Let\u2019s take his tone-deaf apology, delivered later Sunday evening via \u2014 what else? \u2014 Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole situation has left me really sad and empty. I checked on the lines person and the tournament told me that thank God she is feeling ok. I\u2019m extremely sorry to have caused her such stress. So unintended. So wrong. As for the disqualification, I need to go back within and work on my disappointment and turn this all into a lesson for my growth and evolution as a player and human being. I apologize to the @usopen tournament and everyone associated for my behavior. I\u2019m very grateful to my team and family for being my rock support, and my fans for always being there with me. Thank you and I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

To summarize: ME ME ME ME ME ME ME. What will become of meeeeeee?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one sure prediction, Novak: You will never truly be considered a GOAT.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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