Novak Djokovic never opened up about “Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal”, as he was seen as “The Third Gai”, who broke the dominance of the pair in men’s tennis.
Federer and Nadal initially formed Big to Big to because they were swept away from all of them and when Djokovic emerged as a challenger, Fedle fans did not take them very politely.
But even Serbian’s rigorous critics were forced to accept that Big to Big Three had turned into Big Three as the three ruled the ATP tour for more than two decades.
DjokovichHowever, the race to become the largest tennis player of all time has won the race as he holds most of the major records in tennis, including most of the Grand Slam won by a man (24), won most ATP 1000 titles (40) and most weeks spent at number 1 in ATP rankings (428).
Despite his fierce battle with Federer and Nadal – who has retired – has always been a mutual honor because he said to former Croatian footballer and coach Slavane Billic on the failure of the Champions: “Just because someone is my greatest opponent, it means that I can harm them, or we can win and win.
He said: “I have never said a single bad word about him and will never happen. I have seen them and still did it, but I have always been better with Nadal.”
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But the “injury” of not being accepted early in his career is something that he did not move easily, as he revealed that “people did not like” acted the way he acted and the fact that he ended the Federer and Nadal era.
“I acted and still felt like an unwanted child,” said former world number 1. “I asked myself why it was so. It hurt me. Then I felt that if I act differently, fans would accept me, but it was not so.
“I was never loved as Federer and Nadal because I was not there. I was a small man, the third boy who came together and said: ‘I am not going to be 1’. Many people did not do it.”
But finally staying right for his values, as he said: “I am a man with many flaws, of course. Still, I have always tried to live with heart and good intentions and eventually, to be myself.”
