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The Faith of Djokovic August 12, 2024

No bureaucrat at the IOC was going to steal this performance from Novak Djokovic. Teary-eyed, drenched in sweat, grateful, sprawled out on the clay, Djokovic rose from the Philippe-Chatrier Court at the Paris Olympics and made the sign of the cross. ...

Playing to the End July 19, 2024

Just before this year’s Wimbledon final, as Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz waited with their bags in a corridor, a tournament official came up to explain the order in which they would walk out onto Centre Court. According to a Wimbledon custom, th...

The Unbearable Greatness of Djokovic May 29, 2024

If there was a moment—a single shot, in fact—when the chemical composition of men’s tennis changed, it came on September 10, 2011, in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, as Novak Djokovic faced Roger Federer. At the time, Djokovic had won just three Gra...