• News.Borna Coric also tests positive for coronavirus on Djokovic's Adria Tour

Novak Djokovic maintains that "on the road to peace", "with the power of prayer", the best way to face your rivals is from love. Novak Djokovic maintains that he is cured by watsu, acupuncture with moxibustion, celery juices and other therapies of the same style. Novak Djokovic maintains that water reacts to emotions and that "with gratitude the most polluted water can be transformed into the most curative". Ultimately, Novak Djokovic maintains that the coronavirus is only fought by the body itself and that, if they forced him to be vaccinated to play tennis again, possibly he would not.

For a few years now, Novak Djokovic has become the spokesperson for numerous pseudosciences. Pupil of the guru Pepe Imaz based in Marbella, a client of physiotherapists, nutritionists and even the most alternative epidemiologists, a decade ago already caused a boom in gluten-free products when he pointed them out as a source of his success, but in recent times he has exaggerated that role. There is no month in which, through their social networks, they do not promote any rarity. And that so far only terrified scientists. In tennis, neither organizers nor rivals nor amateurs made his behavior ugly because, after all, it was part of his charismatic character and in some way served to decipher the ups and downs of his career. Until this month. Their skepticism towards the coronavirus has become the biggest threat to the return of the ATP circuit on August 17 with the Washington ATP 500 and some have already raised their voices.

Andy Roddick ironized this Monday along with Stan Wawrinka about the Serbian ignorance ("Apparently there was a pandemic ...") and more modest tennis players such as the Americans Mitchell Krueger and Noah Rubin openly charged against the irresponsibility of who is also the leader from the Players Council. "A stellar leadership," the first wrote as directly affected because, unlike the stars, he cannot live without tournaments.

The cool Adria Tour idea will definitely be a stain on Djokovic's record. Thus it was born and thus it will remain, although all its consequences are still unknown. At the moment, the exhibition tournament organized by the world number 1 in Serbia and Croatia has caused the contagion of two tennis players, Grigor Dimitrov and Borna Coric , and two members of their own coaching staff, Kristijan Groh and Marko Paniki . The Serbian press assured yesterday that Nole himself has already passed the tests and that new cases will be known in the next few hours. It would not be surprising. Because the competition blatantly skipped all security measures.

Djokovic went to receive the participants at the Belgrade airport with hugs and without masks, massive press conferences were organized, there were promotional events in crowded squares of cities like Zadar, the matches were played with full capacity ... and so on until arriving to the basketball pachangas, dinners and night parties shared by Djokovic, Dimitrov, Coric and other participants such as Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev or Marin Cilic .

It is true that both in Serbia and Croatia the pandemic has hit less hard than in the United Kingdom, Spain or Italy -261 deaths in Serbia and 107 in Croatia-, but it is also true that in the attitude of Djokovic and the rest of the tennis players Participants evidenced a challenge to planetary fear of the coronavirus.

In fact, proof of this is that one of those present, Thiem, has organized a tournament similar to the Adria Tour in his city, the Austrian Kitzbühel, and that this Monday he still maintained his will to play it between July 7 and 11 even with Dimitrov and Coric among the participants if they give negative within 15 days. In his case, yes, it ensures that the tennis players will maintain the safety distance, that the public will be reduced to 500 spectators and that, among other things, there will be hydro-alcoholic gel, a preventive measure that was denied in the tournament organized by Djokovic. Despite that it will be difficult to have an ideal. The genius idea of ​​the world's number one Adria Tour has put tennis in quarantine.

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