• Tennis: Novak Djokovic, his latest pseudoscientific delusion and a botch that stops the return of tennis
  • Djokovic.After his positive: "My tournament was born from a philanthropic idea"
  • Opinion: Djokovic, number one idiocy

Deep down, if you look at the stage with just the right amount of cynicism, Novak Djokovic has made a great contribution to the fight against the Covid-19 by irresponsibly organizing his exhibition tournament in Serbia and Croatia. The contagion of one of the best-known athletes in the world, the current number one in the ATP tennis rankings, throws a valuable moral whose echo reaches all corners of the planet: the virus is still very present and measures cannot be taken as a joke of prevention to avoid infections. After the positives of Grigor Dimitrov (19th in the ranking), Borna Coric (33rd), Viktor Troicki (184th) and his pregnant wife and technicians Kristijan Groh and Marko PanikiBoth Djokovic himself and his wife, Jelena, announced from Belgrade that they have also contracted the disease.

And now, of course, the wailing arrives. ATP President Andrea Gaudenzi summed it up perfectly, speaking to the New York Times: “This is like when your kids start riding a bike and tell them they have to put on a helmet. They tell you no, no and no. Then they get on the bike and fall off. From there they put on the helmet ». The serious thing about the situation is that those who have fallen off their bikes are the best tennis players in the world and that with them they have dragged those who, seduced by the confidence that Nole gives off due to his hierarchy as an athlete, were present in one way or another in the unfortunately historical Adria Tour.

In the statement in which he announced his contagion and that of his wife - his children have tested negative - Djokovic moved between mea culpa and self-justification. “Everything was born with a philanthropic motivation to raise funds for people in need. We organized the tournament at a time when the virus had already weakened, believing that the conditions proposed to carry it out were correct. Unfortunately, the virus was still present, a reality that we are still learning to endure and live with, "explained the 17 grand slams champion, who is symptom-free but will have to be in quarantine for at least 14 days.

The tournament had been a nonsense whose authorization is only understood from idolatry to the local idol and voluntary submission to everything he does. It was not only the exhibition matches between some of the best tennis players in the world - there was also Dominic Thiem (3rd) and Alexander Zverev (7th), both negative in the test -, but everything that was around: parties in discos, massive dinners , basketball pachangas, press conferences that did not fit journalists, mass baths in airports and other spaces ... Suffice to say that the tournament was canceled minutes before the final scheduled between Djokovic and Andrei Rublev and with the stands. full of public. Masks? Not even one. For social distance, better not ask.

"This takes the cake"

Don't ever tell me that something I have done is irresponsible or stupid. This takes the cake ", Nick Kyrgios , the world's worst tennis enfant , was dispatched , of course, outside the tournament organized by Djokovic, such as Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, to cite the two most representative examples. To further scorn, Djokovic is the president of the ATP Players Council, the body that should ensure the integrity and rights of tennis players against the organizers and other classes. Another of its members, the Brazilian doubles player Bruno Soares , was one of the few tennis players who did not bite his tongue: "It was a show of horror, of immature immaturity and irresponsibility."

The first consequence of the positives of the Adria Tour is the postponement of the Juan Carlos Ferrero Academy 25th Anniversary Tournament , scheduled for next week, and in which tennis players such as Pablo Carreño, Álex de Miñaur and Feliciano López were going to participate. For the resumption of the world circuit there are still a couple of months, so the condition should be minimal.

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