Commentary Maybe it’s because I’m a contrarian—many didn’t like him, especially the legions of Raphael Nadal and Roger Federer supporters—but I have been a huge Novak Djokovic fan even before 2011 when he won three Grand Slams (as he did again in 2021) and took his high place in the anointed of tennis. I liked his sense of humor and that he could speak five… or is it six… languages, not to mention the amazing two-hander down the line. I shrugged at the diet craziness—it seems to have worked for him—and some of the outbursts. (I have been known to throw my racquet myself on occasion.) Now that it is finally clear he has received a medical exemption from COVID vaccination (more in a moment) and will be playing in the 2022 Australian Open, I will, thus far, be rooting for him to win his tenth Australian (he already has …
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