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Patrick Mouratoglou analyzed the crowd’s relationship with Novak Djokovic. Serena Williams’ former coach expressed a frank and clear point of view on the situation, explaining how, in his opinion, the crowds started to hate the Serbian champion when he started beating his rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
The Frenchman said that when Djokovic started winning the first important titles of his glorious career, the Swiss and the Spaniard were already stars who had been shining on the tennis courts for a few years, and their rivalry was broken by the advent of the Serbian .
“Djokovic doesn’t like this negativity, but sometimes he pushes the crowd to boo him because it helps him during the matches. What we should not forget is he has 14 million followers on Instagram, he is a huge hero in Serbia.
Nole is the greatest name in current tennis. We will all miss him when he stops playing the sport. Federer and Nadal were the biggest tennis stars at the time, but Djokovic came in and beat them. The crowds hated him for that. I think he is booed for other reasons as well,” explained Mouratoglou.
Mouratoglou says crowds hated Djokovic for beating Federer &…
