Djoker's Wild
from Wrecking the Toy Department Hosted by Jake Williams
Rules? Where we're going there are no rules. For world number one men's tennis player Novak Djokovic, it has been as startling a descent over the past three years as it was an ascent for the previous decade-plus. How did such a great sportsman, once a poor kid who grew up in a a war-torn nation hitting tennis balls or shrapnel blasted tennis courts become a caricature of the worst kind of self-obsessed, sanctimonious, hypocritical, rules don't apply to me, sports celebrity? We'll take a look at his high-speed plummet from athlete to admire to the unfortunate non-role model he's become, and examine how his Big Four contemporaries stack up by comparison. For Novak Djokovic, it's a bad look all around even if he may well currently be the best men's tennis player ever. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please contact me at [email protected]. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. To read the background material and research for this episode, go to: BBC - Novak Djokovic: Doubts over timing of Covid test The Guardian - The unapologetic feminism that turned Andy Murray into a global icon San Francisco Chronicle - Novak Djokovic's Olympic meltdown shows hypocrisy of his Simone Biles criticism
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