(01-09-2022, 08:03 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:Not surprising.  Novak was born in 1987, and his nation was at war for no less than 7 years in the 1990's.  I believe there was further conflict in the 2000's too.

(01-09-2022, 08:34 PM)LP link Wrote:I believe his family moved from Montenegro to Monte Carlo when he was a teenager!

(01-10-2022, 02:23 AM)Mav link Wrote:Yes, it was terrible that the Serbians refused to stop their Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo and that resulted in NATO bombing them. Whether or not NATO committed war crimes by bombing the Serbians, I'll leave to the the historians and experts in international law. But Serbian leaders were convicted of war crimes, so playing the victim card on Serbia's behalf is a bit surprising.

Quote:It's March 24, 1999, and the air strikes on the Serbian capital mark the beginning of what would be a 78-day campaign by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to try and bring to an end atrocities committed by Yugoslavia's then-president Slobodan Milosevic's troops against ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo.
While his father, Srdjan, helped his mother, Dijana, who temporarily lost consciousness after hitting her head against the radiator following the first explosion, Djokovic searched for his brothers, eight-year-old Marko and four-year-old Djordje, in their pitch dark apartment.

"At 11, I was the big brother," the top-ranked Serb wrote in "Serve to win," his 2013 autobiography. "I'd been holding myself responsible for their safety ever since NATO forces started bombing my hometown of Belgrade."

In the first chapter of his autobiography, titled "Backhands and Bomb Shelters," Djokovic vividly recalls the night that changed his life forever.
After Dijana regained consciousness, the Djokovic family entered the unlit streets of Belgrade and tried to make their way to the nearby apartment building of an aunt's family, which had a bomb shelter.
While his parents ran down the streets, holding his younger brothers, Djokovic suddenly found himself all alone after he fell flat on his face in the street.
"And then it happened," Djokovic wrote. "Rising up from over the roof of our building came the steel gray triangle of an F-117 bomber."
"What happened next would never leave me," he said. "Even today, loud sounds fill me with fear."
The bomber dropped two laser-guided missiles right over his head, which struck a hospital building a few streets away.
"I remember the sandy, dusty, metallic shell in the air, and how the whole city seemed to glow like a ripe tangerine," Djokovic said in his book.
The streets now covered in light, Djokovic spotted his parents and brothers in the far distance, and chased after them until they all reached the concrete shelter safely.
There were about 20 families hiding in the shelter.
"There were children crying. I didn't stop shivering for the rest of the night," Djokovic said in his book.
In a 2015 interview with CNN television, Djokovic recalled the bombing campaign, during which he and his family would spend each night in the shelter from 8 p.m., and only had electricity for a few hours each day.
"Those times are certainly something that I don't wish for anybody to experience," he said. "Two-and-a-half months, every single day and night, bombs coming into the city. We saw planes flying over our heads, and literally rockets and bombs landing half a mile away."

(01-10-2022, 02:17 AM)LP link Wrote:Like a reformed smoker.

It's not about where you came from, it's about how you now choose to act around others!

You'd think someone who has allegedly seen and experienced such suffering and hardship would be far far better at reading the room. Instead he doesn't just seem tone deaf, he acts with indignance towards those who have been bitten by the pandemic! :o

It's OK for workers with legitimate reasons for being unvaccinated to lose their job so that Djoker can compete safely in an unvaccinated state, they get nothing from him but a virtual spit in the face, as do the hundreds of unpaid volunteers, many wrapped head to toe in PPE, who donate time and effort to enable his earning million$ and million$!