Get fit the Djokovic way
9:59 AM Wednesday Feb 1, 2012
Four years ago, Andy Roddick publicly mocked Novak Djokovic's
physical frailty. Here, suggested the American to a chuckling audience
of tennis reporters in New York, was a fine tennis player but one too
ready to raise the white flag when the going got tough.
Roddick was voicing what had been whispered in the locker rooms across
the tennis circuit, that the Serb's tendency to call for the trainer was
a telling sign of a talented young man who lacked the steel to break up
the Roger Federer/Rafael Nadal duopoly. Now Djokovic looks down on the
rest, with Roddick one voice among many scrambling to laud his
durability in the wake of six hours of high-octane tennis that
strengthened Djokovic's grip on the game.
"Absolute war," tweeted Roddick after the final of the Australian Open
in Melbourne in which Djokovic defeated Nadal in a match that lasted
five hours and 53 minutes, a record for a Grand Slam final.
"Physicality of tennis has been taken to another level in the last five years."
Djokovic greeted his victory by ripping off his shirt, an
astonishing gesture that captured the moment of a triumph that was as
much physical as it was one of sporting prowess.
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