Djokovic: "I just needed time to clear the storm"

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Novak Djokovic

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Nick Kyrgios

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A hundred people with Serbian flags sprint towards the bridge that connects the Wimbledon headquarters with the club's social area.

"No-le, No-le, No-le!", They shout as the champion passes, who during the interval between his victory and the talk with the journalists has had time for everything: cry under the towel, kiss his wife (Jelena) and her daughter (Tara), joke around with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and celebrate in the privacy of the locker room with her entire team.

He is excited and somehow released.

“The year started as it did, and it definitely affected me.

Mentally and emotionally he was not well.

It was not easy to close that episode, it created a great turbulence inside me.

But he just needed time to clear the storm.

I came here after a tough loss against Nadal [in the Paris quarters] and everything has been complicated, but my tennis has always been there.

I know what my qualities are and what my tennis is, and as I've always said, Wimbledon inspires me a lot, ”says the Balkan, who already has 88 titles in the elite and this Sunday's was the ninth over thirty.

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There is no place for him, he says, more special than the All England Club, where he has already signed 86 victories, for the 85 at Roland Garros, the 82 in Australia and the 81 in New York.

In London, only Martina Navratilova (9), Roger Federer and Serena Williams (8) have celebrated more times than he, who played perhaps his last Grand Slam match against Kyrgios this season.

The health law of the United States prevents him from entering the country, so in principle he will not be able to compete in the US Open from August 29 to September 11.

“I have not been vaccinated and I do not plan to do so.

I don't think getting a waiver is realistic,” she says.

I'm on vacation, yes.

Whether or not I'm playing soon, I need to rest for at least a couple of weeks because it's been quite an exhausting period.

Then I'll hopefully wait for good news from there [USA].

I'm not going to get overwhelmed by playing tournaments and getting points, ”she adds, knowing that this Monday the

update , paradoxically, deals a good blow.

Kyrgios protests in an instant of the final. Zac Goodwin (AP)

By not distributing Wimbledon points – this was decided by the organization of the great British to try to compensate for the veto against Russian and Belarusian tennis players – the Balkan will lose the 2,000 obtained last year in London and will fall to seventh place on the list.

Meanwhile, Rafael Nadal will rise from fourth to third.

Between the two they have won 15 of the last 17 majors, and if you add the dismounted Federer to the equation, the trident groups 59 of the last 69.

Before he (35 years old) spoke in the conference room, Nick Kyrgios did.

The Australian (27) expressed disappointment with him and acknowledged that he suffered from anxiety before the final, and praised the winner's ability to navigate emergency situations.

“In the first

I felt that he was in complete control of the match, but he remained calm, as always.

He always comes back, he is never nervous, ”said the Canberra player, the most sanctioned player in the last two weeks.

He must pay 15,000 pounds (almost 18,000 euros) for his bad behavior.

“This tournament has helped me to realize that I can fight for great things”, he valued, introducing a nuance: “I feel that if I had won today, I would have had problems with motivation for the following tournaments.

All my life I have been told that winning Wimbledon is the most a tennis player can achieve.

It is the first time that I have come so far, it has taken me ten years to achieve it...”.

Finally, Kyrgios slipped that not having played the semifinal against Nadal, injured, could have taken its toll.

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