Novak Djokovic says there is no room for emotions in professional tennis – Tennis News
Reigning world number one, Novak Djokovic, has said that there is no place for friendship, when you are playing someone you know on the ATP World Tour.
The Serbian stated this after thrashing his childhood friend, Viktor Troicki, in straight sets in the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships. Playing on the grass courts of All England Club, Djokovic allowed his countryman
to win just seven games in the entire match, beating him 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 to reach the last eight.
Talking to the reporters after the encounter, the defending champion said, "It's hard to kind of express the emotions, you know, to celebrate or to be angry. Really it's kind of difficult to know what to do and how to behave on
the court when you're playing one of your best friends really. The first match we played is one local tournament when I was eight and he was nine years old.”
Djokovic and Troicki are also team mates in the Serbian Davis Cup squad. Both of them were members of the team that won the crown in 2010.
The 25-year-old added, "We won Davis Cup together. We are very good friends in our private life, so all these things are playing around with your emotions a little bit. But in the end we are professionals, it doesn't matter who
is across the net, you want to win."
It’s almost a year since Djokovic mounted to the top of the world rankings but the Serbian has said that his desire to win has not reduced. The Belgrade, Serbia resident said that he always wanted to be the best at what he does.
Djokovic gave an amazing performance in the last season, when he grabbed three Grand Slam titles. He won 41 matches at the start of 2011, winning the Australian Open and losing his first match in the semi-final of French Open.
The Serbian fulfilled his dream of winning the biggest tournament in tennis and becoming world number one, when he defeated Rafael Nadal in the 2011 Wimbledon final.
Djokovic will either face France’s Richard Gasquet or Florian Mayer of Germany in the quarters.
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