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Djokovic is also known for humorous parodies of other players, many of whom are his friends. He demonstrated this for the first time after his victory over Carlos Moya in the quarterfinals of the 2007 US Open. He then entertained the audience with parodies of Raphael Nadal and Maria Sharapova. [15] He also parodied John McInroy after winning the fourth round of the 2009 US Open, after which he played several draws with Arthur Ash on the court. It was because of his cheerful disposition that Djokovic received the nickname "Joker", which combines his last name and the English word "Joke" - a joke. Novak Djokovic is a member of the "Champions for Peace" organization - a group of famous athletes seeking to serve peace on the planet through sport, created by the international organization from Monaco "Peace and Sport".
Djokovic is an Orthodox Christian. On April 28, 2011, Serbian Patriarch Irinej awarded Djokovic the Order of St. Sava I, the highest award of the Serbian Orthodox Church, for helping the Serbian people, churches and monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija.

Djokovic was born on May 22, 1987 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His father, Srdjan Djokovic, is a Serb of Kosovo and Montenegrin descent, and his mother, Diana Zagar, is Croatian. [9] His two younger brothers, Marco and George, are also professional tennis players. Djokovic lives in Monte Carlo. Former Slovak tennis player Marian Vaida has been Djokovic's coach since 2006. Like his colleague Roger Federer, Djokovic calls himself a fan of languages ​​and speaks four languages ​​in addition to his native Serbian: English, German, French and Italian.
He started playing tennis at the age of four. In the summer of 1993, when he was six, he was spotted by Yugoslav tennis legend Elena Gencic. Seeing the talented guy in action, she declared: "This is the greatest talent I have seen since the time of Monica Seles." [10] Gencic worked with the young Djokovic for the next six years before it became clear that he had to go abroad to continue growing. To do this, she contacted Nikolai Pylych, and in September 1999, 12-year-old Djokovic moved to the Pylych Tennis Academy in Oberschleisheim, Germany, where he spent four years. At the age of 14, Djokovic began his international career, winning the European Championships in individual, doubles and team categories.

In addition, he has won the ATP World Tour Finals five times - in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, becoming the first player to win four such tournaments in a row. Djokovic was a member of the Serbian national team, which won the Davis Cup in 2010. Djokovic also won a bronze medal in the individual category at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Djokovic is the only player to win all 9 Masters Series tournaments, holding the record for the number of titles won in a single season (6 titles in 2015) and the total number of titles 36. In 2012, Djokovic was included in the list of "100 the most influential people in the world "from Time magazine. [6] 1987 Wimbledon winner Pat Cash describes Djokovic as one of the greatest tennis players of all time

Having won three majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth tennis player in the open era to win three Grand Slam tournaments in a calendar year. Repeating this achievement in 2015, he became the second after Roger Federer, who managed to do it twice. After winning Roland Garros in 2016, he became the eighth tennis player in history to win a career Grand Slam, as well as the first, after Rod Laver in 1969, to simultaneously win all four Grand Slam tournaments. After winning Roland Garros in 2021, Djokovic became the first player in the open era to win every Grand Slam tournament at least twice. He is also the only Open Age tennis player to win three consecutive Australian Opens and the only eight-time winner of the tournament. He became the first Serb to win a major in the individual category and the youngest player in the open era to reach the semifinals of all four Grand Slam tournaments, separately and consecutively. [5] Reaching Roland Garros in 2012, he became the ninth player in the open era to reach the final of all four Grand Slam tournaments (and only the fifth to do so).

Novak Đoković (Serbian: Novak Đoković / Novak Đoković MFA: [ˈnɔvaːk 'ʥɔːkɔviʨ] (listen)), b. May 22, 1987, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) - Serbian tennis player, the world's first racket. He received the status of a professional in 2003. July 4, 2011 became # 1 for the first time. 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2018 finished in first place in the ranking. [2] [3] Many players and experts recognize him as one of the best tennis players of all time. [4]

Djokovic has won 20 Grand Slam tournaments in the individual category: 9 Australian Open, 2 Roland Garros, 6 Wimbledon and 3 US Open. According to this indicator, he shares first place in history with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

In 1899, four students at Harvard University had the idea of ​​holding a tennis tournament in which national teams participate. One of them, Dwight Davis, developed a scheme for the tournament and bought a prize for the winner with his own money - a silver cup [9]. The first tournament took place in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1900, and was attended by the national teams of the United States and Great Britain. Davis, along with two other Harvard students, played for the US team, which unexpectedly won, then winning the next match in 1902 [10]. Since then, the tournament has been held every year (with a few exceptions), and after the death of Davis in 1945, it was named the Davis Cup and is now a popular annual event in the world of tennis.

However, tennis has been a game of the elite for most of its history. The small number of participants in the match and the limited space for spectators did not allow it to become a truly popular entertainment, and after a hundred years even in Paris there were only ten tennis halls, all in poor condition. Tennis halls began to be adapted for other needs, including for the performance of theater companies, and, according to the Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia of Theater, this predetermined the shape of future theater halls.
In 1874, Major Walter Clopton from Wingfield (England) developed the rules for a new game that was essentially close to modern tennis, which he called "spheristics". Over the course of a year, the rules of the sphere were improved, and the game received a new name - "lawn tennis", which in English means "tennis on the lawn"

One of the most famous mentions of tennis in medieval literature is an episode in the historical chronicle of Shakespeare "Henry V", where the French dauphin, in a mockery of the young English king, sends a keg of tennis balls.
In the 16th century, almost all French kings played tennis: the tennis hall was equipped on the royal yacht of Francis I, Henry II ordered the construction of a tennis hall in the Louvre, and Charles IX in 1571, granting the Parisian tennis players and racket makers the right to guild, called tennis "one of the noblest, most dignified and healthy exercises that princes, peers and other nobles can do."

The direct predecessor of modern tennis is considered to be the indoor game, which had the same name until the end of the 19th century, and is now known as real tennis, court tennis or jeu de paume (literally, play with the palm) ... Jeux de pom, which could be played simultaneously by up to 12 people [4], appeared in the 11th century, apparently, in monasteries. At the beginning, in this game, as in the hand pelote, the ball was hit by hand, then gloves, bats appeared and, finally, in the 16th century, rackets and a net. At the same time, the peak of the popularity of jue de poma, which was played by the French, English and Spanish kings of that time

Tennis (English tennis) or tennis is a sport in which either two players compete ("single game"), or two teams, consisting of two players ("doubles game"). The task of the rivals - a tennis player or a tennis player - is to send the ball to the opponent's side with the help of rackets so that he cannot reflect it, no more than after the first fall of the ball on the playing field in the opponent's half.
Modern tennis in English has the official name lawn [lɔːn] "lawn") to distinguish it from real tennis (or jue de pom in the French version of the name) - an older variety played in indoors and on a completely different type of court.

Tennis is an Olympic sport.