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The ATP Tour recently put together a video in which tennis players provided the fans with a different level of entertainment. This time, they not only decided to impress the world with their tennis skills but also with their acting skills. The video has a lot of renowned tennis players, such as Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Grigor Dimitrov, and many more.

Novak Djokovic acted as a character named ‘Bert Critchley’. The character is actually meant to represent an alter ego of Djokovic. The Serbinator, impersonating Critchley, talked about his experiences in playing the character of Novak Djokovic.

Bert Critchley shares his experience of playing the world number 1 Novak Djokovic

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A recent post on Twitter showed a video of Bert Critchley (acted by Djokovic) playing Novak Djokovic. In the video, the character talked about what it felt like to play the role of the 24-time grand slam winner and how he connected to him through the role.

He added, “Something I’m trying to evoke with this Novak character is not just the achievements, but a bit more of an essence & personality… What would motivate him if he were a real person?”

The hilarious act the ATP tour is putting up is actually making all tennis fans very interested and excited about the whole setup. Watching their favorite tennis players play a role like this is no less than a dream come true.

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In fact, the ATP tour has taken this whole thing to another level, as they have created actual Instagram accounts of these people who are shown as actors playing the roles of the players. Let’s take a look.

ATP Tour takes entertainment it to another level with different social media accounts of actors

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Bert Critchley, who is being shown as an actor playing Novak Djokovic, who is also actually Djokovic, now has an Instagram account. And can you guess what his bio says? It says, “Actor/ Dog dad”. Not just that, Andy Murray, who is also a part of this, is shown to be played by an actor called Sir Fraser Knight.

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He also has an account on Instagram and his bio says, “The main character”. In fact, he also posted a video on his social media account about how people ask him if he is Andy! Well, what do you think about this? Too much or just, right? Let us know how you are enjoying it.

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