Saturday, September 6, 2008

Novak shows he has thin skin.

Coming in to the quarterfinal meeting between Novak Djokavic and Andy Roddick this week, the drama was thick from every angle. Djokavic, after bursting onto the tennis scene and setting himself apart as one of the big three in tennis, finally proved himself by winning the Australian Open in January. Roddick, a former champion himself, had slipped as of late but recently had recaptured his game. The surge was not coincidentally just after convincing his Davis Cup coach Pat McEnroe to assist him in New York. To top it off the relationship between these two is nothing short of tense, with the two taking verbal jabs at each other in pre match interviews. Unfortunately, the simple trash talk and press pleasing interviews went from humerus to classless the minute the match ended. Novak Djokavic's post match comments in front of 20,000 plus in New York was the most embarrassing and classless interview I've ever heard in the post match setting. The crowd responded properly by booing him out of Ashe Stadium, a court named after a man not because of his incredible tennis skill, but for the class with which he used it.

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