At 2 p.m. on Monday, Novak Djokovic has an appointment on the court to play his first match of the Masters, the annual tournament which brings together the eight best players in the world.
He faces the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
He will enter the field with a light heart.
Not only because he has just triumphed at the Rolex Masters in Paris but because his country, Serbia, qualified for the next World Cup in Qatar on Sunday evening.
And, in front of his TV in Vienna in Austria, the world number 1 did not miss a thing.
Recall that the Serbs qualified directly for the World Cup Sunday evening by beating Portugal 2-1 thanks to a goal from Aleksandar Mitrovic at the very last minute.
A feat that sends Serbia to Qatar and Portugal in dams next March.
Novak Djokovic celebrating Mitrovic's last minute winner for Serbia against Portugal to qualify for the World Cup.pic.twitter.com/mXDF4pZ5sE
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At the same time, Mitrovic has become the hero of Djokovic who has completely cracked after the feat of the Serbs.
All alone in his hotel room, the king of the racket filmed himself screaming between his four walls to the point of probably waking his neighbors.
He also opened the window to share his cheek with the whole city.
Yes, Novak let himself go, probably even more so than when he won a Grand Slam tournament.
In Qatar, Serbia will participate in the third World Cup in its history after 2010 in South Africa and in 2018 in Russia.
Both times, the Serbs were eliminated in the group stage.
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