Srdjan Djokovic

Srdjan Djokovic (; born 25 April 1961) is a Serbian entrepreneur and former professional skier and skiing coach. He is best known as the father of tennis players Novak, Djordje, and Marko Djokovic.

Early life and education Djokovic is an ethnic Serb born in Mitrovica to parents Stanka and Vladimir, and grew up in the nearby town of Zvečan, Kosovo, which at the time was part of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia. During winters, he worked as a ski coach in the winter resorts of Kopaonik and Brezovica, where he met his future wife Dijana Žagar in 1986. (born 1991), and Djordje (born 1995). and ski coach, who worked in the Kopaonik ski resort, He is currently the owner-operator of the Red Bull pizza restaurant and it still exists to this day.

Role in Novak's upbringing

When Novak was four, Djokovic and his wife gave him a mini-racket and a soft foam ball, which became "the most beloved toy in his life". Djokovic taught him to ski from a very early age, but it was tennis that won him over, so he and his wife sent him to a tennis camp in Novi Sad.

Since no one in the Djokovic family had a tennis background, his parents asked experts whether Novak had sufficient potential and talent to pursue a tennis career and whether they should invest in it; ultimately it was Genčić who gave them those assurances, and in shelters during the first few nights before eventually deciding to go on living their old routines as normal as possible.

Djokovic ultimately decided to take out high-interest loans to help pay for his son's tennis education, On 6 January, the eve of Orthodox Christmas day, Djokovic compared his son's detention in Australia to the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Controversy In January 2023, he was seen during the Australian Open tennis tournament near the Rod Laver Arena with a pro-Vladimir Putin motorcycle gang called the Night Wolves. Vasyl Myroshnychenko, the Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, called for Djokovic to be banned from the subsequent tennis match in the competition. Djokovic subsequently stated that he would not attend the January 27 semi-final to avoid disrupting it. Srdjan Djokovic later stated that he did not intend to post with the pro-Russian gangsters and mistakenly thought he was posing for photos with Serbian tennis fans.