Novak Djokovic is committed to being terrible, as MarlowNYC outlined in 2020: 'From his pandemic clubbing to COVID anti-vaxx talk and forming a men’s rights organization, firing a tennis ball into a lineswoman’s throat was just the tip of the iceberg'
the USA Network’s sideline reporter Michael Barkann, who’d teed up the impressions. “I’ll live off this for a couple of years.”
I was there that evening, and have had a major soft spot for the eccentric Serb ever since. His early trainer-hailing and taunting of Andy Roddick—who probably had it coming—felt like small potatoes when compared to his UNICEF ambassadorships and infectious diablerie. But Djokovic’s actions over the past five months have been so egregious they’ve forced me to reconsider.
The tennis great’s recent screw-up—accidentally firing a tennis ball into the throat of a lineswoman at the U.S. Open, causing him to default and her to—is just the tip of the idiot iceberg, really. Eyebrows were first raised in April, when Djokovic, who’s long dabbled in questionable new age-healing practices , hosted a discussion on his Instagram Live with Chervin Jafarieh, an ex-real estate broker turned snake-oil salesman.
During their chat, Jafarieh forwarded the baseless theory that people’s immune systems are becoming damaged during the COVID-19 crisis due to a mental “state of fear,” while Djokovic maintained that people could purify polluted water with their minds, saying, “I know some people that, through energetical [sic] transformation, through the power of prayer, through the power of gratitude, they managed to turn the most toxic food, or maybe the most polluted water, into the most healing water,...
Novak Djokovic tends to a lineswoman after inadvertently striking her with a ball hit in frustration during his fourth round match against Pablo Carreno Busta at the 2020 US Open on September 6, 2020 in New York City.
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