La Serbia si è rivoltata contro Novak Djokovic, che è fuggito in Grecia

“The man who touched people’s hearts.” This was the answer given by Novak Djokovic on Tuesday, when asked what message he wanted to use as his epitaph.

“I want to cry right now,” added Djokovic, after offering this wholesome response at the end of a feature-length interview with Piers Morgan. “I think I’ve realised what I want on my tombstone. Thank you. You’ve helped me come to that realisation.”

Djokovic was in emollient mood during this hour-long chat, which also found him describing his first meeting with wife Jelena as “destiny” and revealing that his 10-year-old son, Stefan, is bent on establishing his own professional tennis career: “I think he’s got some good genes in him.”

What we didn’t hear about, though, was Djokovic’s recent shift of domicile. Having spent much of his playing career alternating between homes in Monte Carlo and Marbella, he caught the tennis world by surprise this summer by upping sticks with his whole family and relocating to Athens.

Part of the explanation may lie in his children’s education. Stefan, Djokovic’s 11-year-old son, and his eight-year-old sister Tara have reportedly been booked into St Lawrence College, a British school in Athens that boasts outdoor tennis courts within its 20-acre campus.

But there is a wider issue here, and it relates to Djokovic’s sudden transformation from Serbian folk hero to persona non grata in the eyes of Aleksandar Vucic, the authoritarian president who has held power in Belgrade since 2017.

Few would have anticipated such a turn of events when Djokovic received a hero’s welcome last summer after returning to Belgrade with an Olympic gold medal. President Vucic celebrated by promising to construct a Djokovic museum in the city, citing the fact that Palma de Mallorca already has a Rafael Nadal museum.

**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2025/11/12/serbia-has-turned-on-disgrace-novak-djokovic/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2025/11/12/serbia-has-turned-on-disgrace-novak-djokovic/)

Not Serbia. Serbians still love him is the Ćaci and current regime who called him “disgrace”

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