Fan’s Plan: Taking a Selfie with World Number 1 Novak Djokovic

A fan devised a plan that he carried out with the world number 1

Novak Djokovic revolutionizes the courts in every tournament he attends for being one of the athletes who marked the history of world tennis. The top Grand Slam winner in the men’s branch has accumulated 98 ATP titles and his presence is a magnet for fans, who try to get closer with the sole purpose of taking home some souvenir of his meeting with the world number 1.

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This challenge forces us to sharpen our ingenuity and find the spaces allowed in the middle of the competitions to be at the right moment and at the appointed time, as happened to a spectator, in his eagerness to take a photograph with the most successful of the Open of Australia. A video, which quickly went viral on social networks, showed Nole leaving an outdoor patio in an area near the venue of the ATP 250 in Adelaide. At that precise moment, two people caught her attention while recording the moment with her cell phone.

The individuals raised their voices to arouse the Serbian’s intrigue and, in a desperate gesture to get a postcard, the person in charge of filming the scene threw his phone into the hands of Djokovic, who held it and took a selfie with the protagonists of the improvised moment. “When you are willing to lose your phone for a selfie with Novak,” they jokingly wrote in the fragment that lasts just under 30 seconds.

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The photograph included the European’s happy face with a thumbs up and a smile; The fans repeated his gesture and held up a sign with the following message: “Novak, please take a selfie with us.” From there, the mission added a new obstacle: returning the mobile device to the owner’s hands. The Davis Cup champion with Serbia in 2010 gained momentum to lift him over the restraining rail and the owner stopped him with a series of rustic movements. At the end, applause from the public could be heard for the goal achieved.

Although there is no precise date on when the situation occurred, it could have originated in the first days of 2023, when Novak Djokovic defeated the American player Sebastian Korda, number 33 in the ATP ranking, in the final of the tournament held. in Adelaide, Australia, because in the last edition he did not participate in the competition prior to the Australian Open. The audiovisual fragment became all the rage only in the last few hours.

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Precisely, the first Grand Slam of the season served as the opening of 2024 for the bronze medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games, although he was unable to achieve his 11th crown in Oceania after losing the semifinal against the Italian Jannik Sinner in four sets. He has not yet returned to the circuit and everything indicates that he would reappear at the Indian Wells Masters 1000 (March 6 to 17), where he will return after five years of absence.

2024-02-29 20:10:00
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