‘The manipulation of the media has something to do with…’

“What I don’t understand when I watch Novak Djokovic’s matches is why his opponents don’t insist on his weaknesses. The Serbian is not that strong near the net and almost always struggles when he has to hit.

He sometimes gets away from him, while other times he does it at two an hour. We’ve had 20 years to realize it,” Simon said. “I watched the match between Djokovic and Tsitsipas in Bercy, where it was a couple of points that made the difference.

If the Greek had played the decisive points differently, maybe he would have won. If you force your opponent to play in zones of the track you don’t like, you’ll make more mistakes and lose confidence even in your strong areas.”

Nole reflects on the media manipulation

During the interview Novak Djokovic also stated he was interested in raising awareness about things that are ‘wrong’ with tennis, even though he wanted nothing to do with politics in general.

“Everything to do with health, for example. But I’m also interested in talking about what’s wrong with the world of tennis,” Djokovic said. “A sport that in terms of popularity and diffusion comes second only to football and basketball in the NBA, which is followed and practiced everywhere, even in China there are many fields, but which gives a living to just 500 people: does it seem possible to you? Here too the manipulation of the media has something to do with it: we are only talking about the 2 or 3 million that someone who wins a Grand Slam earns, and not about the thousands of players all over the world who don’t have the possibility of making a job out of it,” Djokovic said.