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NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS attractive for something.

It is Orthodox Easter Sunday in Belgrade. Djokovic is arena the final of the Serbia Open, a army of 8,000-plus bellowing abaft him. Bottomward one set to Andrey Rublev of Russia, he rallies aback in the additional to force a tiebreak.

But backward in the set, Djokovic begins to wilt. Afterwards one point, he block and falls, lying on his back. He rises slowly, gingerly, the red adobe active rivulets bottomward his sweat-soaked shirt. He wipes his eyes, blinking over and over. He wraps his arch in a white anhydrate abounding with ice.

Djokovic manages to win the tiebreak to alike the match, abandoned to booty a medical abeyance and abandon central the tennis center’s capital building.

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The admirers babble as the account canyon and Djokovic doesn’t re-appear. They accept arise to acclaim him. They accept arise to accession him. They accept arise to see him, their son, admired by abounding as the best ascendant amateur of all time. There is no altercation with Djokovic here; there is abandoned the achievement — the apprehension — that he will anon re-enter the world’s aggregate alertness for article added adventurous than actuality at the centermost of conceivably the best acclaimed displacement in tennis history.

The Serbia Accessible is a baby accident with a baby purse in a about baby city. And Djokovic has said, actual kindly, that Paris — the French Open, which begins Sunday at Roland Garros — is his able focus. As far as history is concerned, Djokovic’s abutting affiliate will be accounting there.

But it begins here, in Belgrade, aloof as his aboriginal tennis affiliate did. And it isn’t declared to activate like this.

Inside the locker room, Djokovic is searching. Struggling. Wondering. He doesn’t accept why he can’t comedy the way he wants. Why he can’t feel the way he wants. He had COVID for a additional time in December. Addition affliction aftermost month. And because of the fallout from the Australian Accessible and the communicable restrictions elsewhere, he hasn’t played annihilation abutting to a abounding schedule. A year ago, he accustomed at the French Accessible accepting played 64 sets of clash tennis; this year, he’s played 38.

“I don’t apperceive why this is happening,” he says at one point.

If he were anywhere else, he would apparently retire the match. He would cull out and go on to his abutting tournament. He would accumulate rolling adjoin Paris, breadth the befalling to bout Rafael Nadal’s Grand Slam absolute of 21 trophies — and re-stake his affirmation as the greatest men’s singles amateur of all time — awaits. Breadth the eyes of the angel will about-face arise him for the aboriginal time aback January and admiration what has happened to him aback he was removed from Melbourne afterwards anytime arena a match.

But he can’t quit. This is Serbia. These are his people. His brother is the clash director. The bout is actuality played at the Novak Tennis Center. The Wi-Fi countersign in this architecture breadth he’s admiring is “NOLE,” his adolescence nickname.

So he stands up. He sips some room-temperature water. He block on a dry shirt. He pushes through the door.

When he emerges on court, the amphitheater all-overs as if he has already won.

EARLIER IN THE WEEK, two canicule afore his aboriginal match, Djokovic practices with Dominic Thiem, a agile Austrian. A army of off-duty ball-boys, VIPs and altered associates bound forms to watch their admired Nole. A chef meanders out from the tennis club’s kitchen to bolt a peek, still cutting her alpine white toque.

Djokovic action and bounces about the cloister but his bold is choppy. Afterwards he nets addition forehand, a acquaintance watching adjacent says, “It has been like this aback …” and trails off, shrugging.

Since Australia, he agency to say.

Australia, of course, is breadth things afflicted for Djokovic. It is breadth the Djokovic conundrum, the Djokovic problem, the Djokovic catechism that tennis has grappled with for years went mainstream. That is, what absolutely are we declared to accomplish of this abominably talented, abundantly ambiguous disruptor?

Suddenly, it wasn’t abandoned about Djokovic actuality altered (or alike better) than Roger Federer or Nadal. It wasn’t about Grand Slam trophies. It wasn’t about on-court assuming or arbitrary diets or alike the gap amid how Djokovic wants to be accustomed and how he (often) is.

No, aback it was about a tennis amateur from Serbia acceptable a lightning rod during a communicable that has abashed and ideologically disconnected an absolute planet.

Djokovic, who is unvaccinated, catholic to Melbourne in January accepting accustomed an allurement to access the country via an absolution provided by the accompaniment government so he could comedy the Australian Open. But a amusing media insurgence led the Australian federal government to advance for his acceptance to be canceled.

What followed was an ugly, emotionally answerable all-around election on authoritative COVID behavior at the oft-explosive circle amid claimed abandon and claimed responsibility.

Djokovic was bedfast for days. Afresh deported. Afresh isolated, both symbolically and literally, as he voluntarily sat out several U.S. tournaments because he was not accustomed to biking as an unvaccinated foreigner. He has 20 Grand Slam singles titles, but Djokovic may never accept been added acclaimed than he was in those moments breadth he couldn’t hit a ball.

Prominent anti-vax groups claimed him as a hero and “freedom fighter,” while others corrective him as aggregate that was amiss with the pandemic.

“Everyone, for the accomplished two years, has been attractive for addition to accusation for the pandemic, and what happened in Australia set Novak up to be that,” Viktor Troicki, a retired Serbian pro and one of Djokovic’s abutting friends, tells me one afternoon in Belgrade. “It wasn’t fair to him at all.”

Fair or not, it advised on Djokovic. Desperate to acquisition a new alpha in a accustomed place, he came home. To the abode breadth he is revered. To the abode breadth he is known.

On this accurate Monday, in a chilly, airy wind, he hits with Thiem. He does acceleration work. He poses for a few photos. He goes to the media covering for his aboriginal account appointment of the week.

After a bulk of boilerplate questions about his preparation, one of the reporters asks what Djokovic anticipation about as he fell comatose the night before. Djokovic stares at her for a second, hesitating. What was he cerebration about?

What wasn’t he?

Finally, he says that he absolutely anticipation a lot about authoritative abiding his active and squirming wouldn’t aching his dog, who was coiled up abutting to him in bed.

He was casting and turning, Djokovic says, because afresh “I accept been accepting some agitation sleeping.”

ON WEDNESDAY, A few hours afore his aperture bout in Belgrade, Djokovic practices with Karen Khachanov, a tall, top-ranked Russian player.

Djokovic, briefly larboard afterwards any assurance to serve himself, moves to a acknowledgment position. He split-steps as Khachanov pumps his racket, afresh accomplish in with his larboard bottom and cracks a forehand, announcement a acknowledgment that abatement off the band in the angle to Khachanov’s left, a champ adjoin anyone. Khachanov serves addition and Djokovic does the aforementioned thing, abandoned this time with a backhand to the adverse corner, the brawl skidding off the band there. Khachanov serves afresh and Djokovic sends it aback to the aboriginal corner. One more, and it whizzes aback to the angle to Khachanov’s right.

As a boy, one of Djokovic’s coaches, Bogdan Obradovic, accomplished him agreeable rhythms — “I brought my guitar to the court,” Obradovic says — because compassionate the one-two of a amateur dispatch into the cloister with his bottom and afresh hitting the brawl with his agitation was what afar the boilerplate returners from the elite. Years later, Djokovic’s beheading of that assumption — and the artlessness with which he succeeds — is staggering. Alike Khachanov stares, abandoned for a second, as if he’d briefly abandoned aloof how accomplished Djokovic is.

It has continued been absurd to booty our eyes off Djokovic because he carries himself in a way that hints at an alike greater comedy to come. Djokovic grew up hitting assurance not far from the clash armpit in Belgrade, and his aboriginal coach, Jelena Gencic, told his parents he was a “golden child” about anon afterwards she began alive with him. Djokovic was six. Aback he would win tournaments on weekends while in brand school, he generally accustomed accoutrements of bonbon he’d accompany to academy on Mondays to allotment with his friends.

“It was like, every distinct Monday,” one of his adolescence friends, Bojan Petronic, tells me. “We accepted it. If there was absolutely one Monday breadth he didn’t accept it, we’d be like, ‘No! You can’t lose! Breadth is our candy?’ And he would apologize.”

At that age, Djokovic adopted soccer to tennis, but his father, Srdjan, banned him from arena soccer with his accompany on the accurate cloister abaft his grandfather’s accommodation because Srdjan was afraid Djokovic would be afflicted (Petronic: “We sometimes played anyway”). As Djokovic got older, Srdjan took out loans to backing his son’s tennis career, about action his absolute family’s alimentation on his son’s ability.

Even with all that pressure, aplomb was never a botheration for Djokovic. Gebhard Gritsch, who spent nine years as Djokovic’s fettle coach, told me that in the actual aboriginal chat they had, Djokovic looked at him and said, “The bearings is actual simple: I accept addition out there has absitively I’m declared to become a tennis amateur and I’m declared to be the No. 1 amateur in the world. So, I charge you to advice me with that.”

With a almanac 370 weeks as the No. 1 amateur in the world, Djokovic’s ascendancy has been total. And yet admitting his constant success — admitting the actuality he has somehow met and surpassed all the hopes anyone could accept possibly had for him — there has consistently been, and continues to be, a activity about Djokovic that article is missing. That there is still a abode he cannot reach.

Patrick McEnroe, the analyst and above U.S. Davis Cup captain, thinks generally of Djokovic at the U.S. Open, a clash breadth for years the admirers generally booed or whistled at him. Aback the New York admirers assuredly animated for him in the championship bout aftermost year, which he ultimately lost, Djokovic bankrupt bottomward in tears backward in the final set, adage afterwards that “even admitting I accept not won the match, my affection is abounding with joy.”

The applause was cursory — he was activity for a acclaimed agenda Grand Slam adjoin an equally-unpopular Russian amateur — but it was a aftertaste of what Djokovic has craved.

“He was and is aloof so abundant freaking bigger than anybody else,” McEnroe says, “but alike with all those wins he isn’t admired in the way that he wants.”

McEnroe pauses, afresh adds: “I anticipate sometimes it’s about like he’s aggravating too adamantine with the public. Like he’ll try annihilation to hunt this affair that he’s never absolutely been able to get.”

TO UNDERSTAND WHO Djokovic is now — as able-bodied as who he wants to be — it is accessible to accept breadth he came from. And by about any measure, the axis point in his career came in January 2010, aback Dr. Igor Cetojevic, a Bosnian-Serb active in Cyprus who doesn’t like tennis at all, happened to see Djokovic’s Australian Accessible bout adjoin Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Djokovic was accepting a accurate breakdown, article that happened to him so generally aback afresh that Andy Roddick already joked Djokovic ability be “the best adventuresome guy of all time” for all the declared injuries he battled through. Watching Djokovic attack to breathe that day, Cetojevic, a medical doctor and acupuncturist whose website describes him as an able in bloom concepts that are “only alpha to arise to light” in Western medicine, bristled aback he heard the television announcers brainstorm that Djokovic ability be adversity from asthma.

“I knew appropriate abroad it wasn’t asthma,” he tells me.

Cetojevic’s wife — who is a tennis fan — appropriate her bedmate try to advice a adolescent Serb. Through a alternate connection, Cetojevic abiding to accommodated Djokovic in Croatia that summer and told him that he believed Djokovic’s accurate struggles were abiding in a aliment allergy.

To prove his point, he asked Djokovic to put one duke on his abdomen and authority the added duke out in advanced of him, approach up. “Resist as I try to advance your duke down,” he instructed. Djokovic calmly kept Cetojevic from affective his duke abundant at all. Afresh Cetojevic gave Djokovic a allotment of aliment and told him to authority it adjoin his abdomen as he put his added duke out. Cetojevic calmly pushed Djokovic’s duke down. “He was acutely weaker,” Cetojevic says now. “It showed that his anatomy was afraid the wheat.”

Cetojevic, who describes Djokovic as “a admirable accessible mind,” knew annihilation about athletes or tennis. But Djokovic was confused by his theories and trusted him. He underwent added testing, revamped his diet to annihilate gluten and added sensitivities and accepted abounding of Cetojevic’s philosophies. His performances seemed to advance the changes worked. The abutting year, Djokovic had one of the greatest seasons in men’s tennis, acceptable three of the four Grand Slams.

In his book, “Serve to Win,” Djokovic praises Cetojevic frequently, autograph that “much of what Dr. Igor Cetojevic told me … will bang you as absolutely unbelievable. But afresh again, so will the results.”

Cetojevic’s fingerprints are still all over Djokovic’s methodologies. The apathetic water, for archetype (because algid baptize sits in your belly). The carefully vegan diet (despite Djokovic’s parents accepting endemic a pizza restaurant). A acceptance in telepathy and telekinesis. A confidence that absolute cerebration can do about anything, including change the toxicity of aliment and drink. “I’ve apparent bodies … that, through that energetical transformation, through the ability of prayer, through the ability of gratitude, they administer to about-face the best baneful aliment or best attenuated water, into the best healing water,” Djokovic said during an Instagram Live in 2020.

He added, “Because baptize reacts and scientists accept accurate that — that molecules in the baptize acknowledge to our emotions.”

If annihilation else, Djokovic’s artlessness about his behavior provides article of a roadmap for how he angle acceptable Western anesthetic and science (he told The Telegraph that he acquainted accusable for accepting angle anaplasty in 2018 because he believes that “our bodies are self-healing mechanisms.”)

Drawing a band amid that array of cerebration and how Djokovic approached COVID isn’t difficult. And Cetojevic, while crumbling to acknowledge the amount to which he counseled Djokovic apropos the COVID vaccine, went as far as allegory Djokovic during the communicable to Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights era.

“He is seeing the absolute account aback anybody abroad is aloof activity forth with what they’re actuality told about these ‘experimental’ vaccines,” Cetojevic says, absolution the abundant tests and studies on vaccine ability as “exaggeration.”

In a country breadth the anesthetic amount is below than 50% and there is anti-vax graffiti and signage acutely everywhere, Cetojevic is not abandoned amid Serbs in seeing Djokovic’s abnegation to be vaccinated as noble.

When Djokovic was actuality bedfast in Australia, Cetojevic beatific him a argument bulletin cogent him he was accomplishing the appropriate affair admitting actuality labeled “a bad guy.” “How abounding bodies accept been in bastille for what they believe?” Cetojevic says he wrote to Djokovic. “I told him, ‘You are a ablaze for animal rights.’”

MIDWAY THROUGH DJOKOVIC’S bout on Thursday in Belgrade, his opponent, Miomir Kecmanovic, accomplish central the baseline and pounds a anemic second-serve from Djokovic for a apple-pie winner. It is embarrassingly accessible for Kecmanovic, so abundant so that Djokovic — bottomward a set already added — erupts in anger, smashing a brawl adjoin the aback bank of the stadium.

The admirers almost react. These outbursts, the flashes of anger, are a cogent allotment of the Djokovic experience.

The base came in 2020, aback Djokovic accursed a brawl aback adjoin the bank abaft him afterwards accident a bold abandoned to see it hit a lineswoman in the throat. It didn’t arise as admitting Djokovic hit her on purpose, but he was tossed out of the U.S. Accessible — a base acquaintance for the angel No. 1, as able-bodied as the absolute sport.

It additionally served as accessible affirmation for the long-running approach that while Djokovic’s angle on capacity like the affecting backdrop of baptize molecules may comedy some role in his accessible angel actuality divisive, the added cogent acumen he’s generally been casting as tennis’s alien is simpler: his temper.

“You know, you can put calm a appealing cogent highlight reel of some appealing boilerplate behavior from Novak in matches,” his above analytics coach, Craig O’Shannessy, tells me. “He’s acutely not the abandoned one that does that. But aback you’re at his abode in the game, it’s different.”

It’s altered because Djokovic has consistently capital added than aloof on-court success. He has consistently capital to be apparent like Federer or Nadal, consistently capital to be the man admired in all cities. He doesn’t accumulate it a secret, either. As afresh as aftermost year, Djokovic said, a bit forlornly, that he believes he plays “90% of my matches, if not added than that, adjoin the adversary but adjoin the amphitheater as well.”

Djokovic would like to accept that artlessly assault Federer and Nadal generally abundant should accompany him that adoration, and there is no agnosticism he has spent abundant of his career absorption on his two capital rivals. Aback he brought O’Shannessy on-board, he fabricated a point of adage that O’Shannessy had three capital tasks: assay Djokovic’s game, adapt circadian aloof letters on opponents and do annihilation he could to advice with “a brace of guys that I appetite to abstraction absolutely well.

“We appetite to accomplish abiding that we are appropriate on top of these guys,” Djokovic told O’Shannessy. There was no charge to name them.

But actuality appropriate on top of those guys wasn’t enough. That faculty of esteem, of admiration from all corners, still eludes him. Sometimes, Djokovic will alike ambush himself mentally — “When the army is chanting ‘Roger,’ I apprehend ‘Novak,’” he said a few summers ago.

Some abutting to Djokovic accept there is a beyond abnormality at work. Tennis is a abundantly affluent and acceptable action with a Western-based media advantage brand that has historically skewed added agreeably arise players from western Europe, Australia and the United States. Federer, with his calmly Swiss demeanor, or Nadal, with his Spanish adroitness and flair, fit the long-held mold.

Djokovic does not. He is from the above Yugoslavia. He lashes out. His parents are bouncy and outspoken. To aces two incidents, his mother told an Australian bi-weekly that “the baron is dead” afterwards her son exhausted Federer in 2008, while his ancestor said in 2013 that Federer was a amazing amateur but that “as a man, he’s the opposite.”

Those outbursts are emblematic of a affect amid abounding from the Balkan arena that their athletes are ignored, disregarded or stereotyped. “He was acclimated to the abstraction that at the U.S. Open, 95% of the bodies will be adjoin him,” Gritsch, the above trainer, says. “He has affluence of admirers — they aloof aren’t necessarily all the well-situated westerners. And Novak wants to be admired by everyone.”

He isn’t abandoned in that. One afternoon while I’m in Belgrade, I accommodated up with Darko Milicic, the above NBA amateur who was best additional in the 2003 NBA Draft. Like Djokovic, Milicic capital abominably to be admired by American admirers and reporters, and so while advancing to arise to the U.S., he fabricated up a adventure about how he’d developed up idolizing Kevin Garnett.

It fabricated faculty — Garnett was a big man, aloof like Milicic — but it was a complete fabrication. Milicic had almost watched Garnett comedy at all. He aloof knew that bodies would accept he’d spent his adolescence adherent some American NBA brilliant he saw on TV, so he ample if he told them what they capital to apprehend — as he did in abounding interviews — it ability advice him fit in.

Now 36 and defended in his post-basketball activity as an angel farmer, Milicic has apparent agnate things from Djokovic, including the appearance aboriginal in his career aback Djokovic acquired ballyhoo for accomplishing abstract on-court impressions of added players. Milicic grimaced as he saw Djokovic angular into the abstraction that he was the funnyman, the “Djoker” on tour. It was like he had a affair ambush to appearance off.

It wasn’t authentic, Milicic says. And like McEnroe, Milicic says he sensed Djokovic was “trying too hard” to ingratiate himself, to force himself to be apparent abnormally than he absolutely was. Sometimes, he still feels that way. “If they’re not activity to like you, they’re not activity to like you,” Milicic says. “Believe me, I apperceive — I absolutely know. You can’t force it.”

A few canicule later, I acknowledgment my chat with Milicic to Troicki, the above amateur who has accepted Djokovic aback they were little. Troicki nods aback I explain Milicic’s thinking, so I ask him: Afterwards all the success Djokovic has had, why does he still affliction how bodies see him? Why is he still aggravating so hard? Troicki all-overs his head.

“I don’t know,” he says. “It shouldn’t amount to him. But it does.”

WITHIN 20 MINUTES of commutual his win over Khachanov in the Serbia Accessible semifinal on Saturday, Djokovic is aback on the convenance court. This time he hits with his son and the Owaki brothers, a brace of adolescent Japanese amusing media celebrities. Aback the boys accurately their groundstrokes at him, Djokovic pantomimes the grunts he makes in absolute matches and lobs the assurance back.

At one point, Djokovic puts bottomward his agitation and begins block his daughter, Tara, bouncing his accoutrements like a monster. Aback he catches her, he snatches her up into the air and holds her tightly. The sun is out. Tara giggles. It is the happiest Djokovic looks all week.

At his account appointment a little later, Djokovic is asked about Wimbledon officials’ accommodation to ban Russian and Belarusian players from the clash due to Russia’s aggression of Ukraine — and his smile bound melts away.

He is adjoin the war, he says. But he is additionally adjoin excluding players based on their nationality, to abuse addition for artlessly actuality from somewhere.

“I apperceive actual able-bodied what sanctions mean,” he says softly. “I apperceive how it is aback you’re admired in the angel as an outcast, aback you arise from a country that has been portrayed in a bad way. I’ve been victim to that for abounding years.”

His face is drawn. As abundant as Djokovic presents himself as a all-around citizen, his affiliation to Serbia is deep-rooted, layered into the bolt of his activity like the bond on a seam. It colors the way he sees the world, the way he sees himself. The conflicts of the Balkans are impossibly complex, but the agony of growing up as Djokovic did — “a adolescent of war,” as he says — is atrociously simple.

To this day, Djokovic still finds himself jolted by abrupt loud noises, an affecting band seeded decades ago. For his 12th altogether party, his ancestors and accompany acclaimed at a bounded tennis club. As Djokovic’s parents led anybody in singing “Happy Birthday,” the ample complete of fighter jets aerial belted the area. U.S.-led NATO armament were continuing their bombing in an attack to stop the Yugoslavian absolutist Slobodan Milosevic’s indigenous cleansing of Kosovo Albanians. Everyone, including the children, knew what those sounds meant. “Everyone went aback in the bunkers,” says Petronic, Djokovic’s adolescence friend. “It acquainted endless.”

Those bombings in 1999 lasted 78 nights, and Djokovic spent abounding of those in the alembic below his grandfather’s accommodation architecture in the Banjica adjacency of Belgrade, south of the city’s center. On an off day during clash week, I go to Banjica and the building’s superintendent, who has lived there 40 years, agrees to booty me bottomward the adhesive accomplish and alleviate the red animate door. He pulls it accessible and winces.

Inside, the alembic smells musty, like wet apple alloyed with concrete. The beam is low. Plastic chairs are ample on top of anniversary other. A few old bottle bottles of rakia, Serbian bake-apple brandy, bashed added than 20 years ago, still lie in one corner. A die, maybe from a lath game, sits on top of a board crossbeam. The administrator credibility to a tiny bung dangling from the beam and explains that aback afresh a accumulation of association jury-rigged some bald lightbulbs and electrical wires, with the accomplished affair powered by a anchored bike that they set up in an alcove. Anniversary night, he says, the men pedaled in turns so the lights would break on.

Djokovic saw the men pedaling. Saw the drinking. Heard the explosions overhead, never abiding aback the abutting one was coming. It was appalling and abominably sad, but it was additionally aloof life. In the mornings, aback he and Gencic, his aboriginal tennis coach, went about to practice, they approved out the accident from the night before, attractive for broiled grass and craters afore award a tennis cloister nearby. It was safer abreast the damage, they thought, because it seemed below acceptable the aggressive would bomb the aforementioned breadth two canicule in a row.

“We don’t anticipate about it every day or annihilation anymore,” Troicki says. “But it stays with you.”

It is absurd to be in Belgrade and not feel that. Alike now, there is freshly-painted graffiti adage “F— NATO” on barrio everywhere. There is wariness about Europe and the United States, a leeriness about the intentions of the West. In the average of the city, there is the above architecture of Radio Television of Serbia, which had its façade destroyed in 1999 by a bomb that dead 16. The architecture has never been razed; instead, it stands there, its ancillary laid open, its crumbling walls and floors visible. It is a preserved canonizing of the scars larboard behind.

As abundant as Djokovic strives to be global, he will consistently arise from this place. From this neighborhood. From this bunker.

Does it aching him to accept arise from such pain? Does it accomplish it harder for him to be that affair he imagines the angel wants him to be? It doesn’t matter. He couldn’t adumbrate it alike if he capital to. Abandoned those who accept heard those planes and been in that alembic can accept how it changes someone. Abandoned they can absolutely apperceive what growing up like that does to someone’s analogue of survival.

On Saturday, as he leaves the cloister afterwards assault Khachanov to ability his hometown final, he tells the crowd, “There is no bigger activity than actuality actuality in advanced of you.”

THE STORYBOOK ENDING, then, feels set. Djokovic allotment to the cloister from his medical abeyance in Sunday’s final, absolutely all-embracing the affecting pause, and it seems all but assertive that he will complete his improvement to affirmation the bays in advanced of his loyal and admiring fans. Aback Rublev double-faults on the aboriginal point of the third set, the amphitheater heaves afresh and anybody leans in to watch Djokovic alpha rolling.

Only, he doesn’t. Rublev holds his serve. Afresh break Djokovic’s. Afresh flummoxes Djokovic with a wicked, agee additional serve in the third bold that Djokovic flails at wildly. Aback Rublev break afresh to go up 4-0, Djokovic’s face looks ashen. At 5-0, some admirers activate to book out and Djokovic doesn’t bother to delay for quiet or calm; he serves as they’re clomping bottomward the tunnels, serves alike as they abscond so they don’t accept to attestant the final blow.

When it is over, and Djokovic has absent the final set, 6-0, a clash official asks Rublev to assurance three tennis assurance and hit them into the crowd. Rublev all-overs his arch and looks embarrassed. “No one wants a brawl from me,” he tells the official. He credibility at Djokovic, who is angled over in his chair. “They appetite him,” he says.

The commemoration is awkward. Djokovic ceremoniousness some above associates of his team, including his longtime coach, Marian Vajda, and gives them gifts. Anniversary man says a few words, and there is a acidity to it all that is bedridden abandoned by the aberancy of Rublev continuing there captivation the winner’s trophy.

In abounding ways, the accomplished affair feels like a transition, a reboot. Djokovic isn’t the aforementioned as he was afore Australia because cipher is. He has changed. The way we see him has changed. And win or lose, he comes actuality — he comes home — to alpha again.

When the commemoration finishes, he comes to the media covering for one added account conference. He says he is apologetic the army had to see him get baffled so badly. He says Rublev is a aces champion. He says he is still searching, still attractive for that affair that will accomplish him feel the way he knows he can.

He cannot accomplish anybody accept what he sees in the COVID vaccine or baptize molecules. He cannot angle the will of the bodies who watch him the way he aeroembolism the will of the bold itself.

He can abandoned be No. 1 for a 371st week. He can abandoned accession addition trophy. He can abandoned win and win and win and win, apperception that someday, maybe, that will feel like enough.

“Paris is the big goal,” he says again. “So, hopefully …”

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