‘Temperamental’ and Volatile Novak Djokovic’s Issues Against Crowd Favorite Roger Federer Addressed in Crude Confession by Tennis Legend

On the tennis court, the Serbian tennis player, Novak Djokovic, enjoys high popularity and respect. However, up until a few years ago, the 35-year-old wasn’t really the crowd’s favorite. In fact, most of the time, when he faced off against his rivals, the Swiss Maestro Roger Federer and the ‘King of Clay’ Rafael Nadal, the crowd would usually be supporting his opponents. Instead of giving into the pressure of the crowd, the ‘Djoker’ always uses it to his advantage. The Serb’s former coach, Boris Becker, recently shared his take on what, in his eyes, is really behind the temperament that manifests itself when the crowd is against the 10-time Australian Open champion.

Boris Becker opens up on the winning mentality of Novak Djokovic

The German tennis legend was the head-coach of the world number-one tennis star for a good amount of time. In his documentary, The World vs. Boris Becker, the six-time Grand Slam winner, talked about how the Serbian’s spectators inspire him to play his best and elevate his game.

The documentary was just made available on Apple TV+, and the streaming service recently posted a clip on its social media accounts. In it the former world number one discussed the 35-year-old tennis player’s motivation that helped him win some huge matches against the other big three players, Federer and Nadal.

He said, “Novak is very emotional. He always gets temperamental when the crowd supports the other guy. And he’s using that to show with his fingers off into the crowd you have woken me up now. I’m going to beat this guy.” 

However, despite using the crowd’s support of his opponents to his advantage, Djokovic craves for such reactions, as revealed by Becker. The retired German star revealed in January that the crowd’s negative reaction only enables the world’s finest tennis player to excel at what he does best, regardless of his opponent.

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Becker on Djokovic channeling negative crowd influence in a positive way

The 22-time Grand Slam champion’s association with the German tennis star was discussed in the Apple TV+ documentary. In it, Becker detailed that the Serb was unable to surpass the other big three players until he addressed the detrimental crowd influence.

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The six-time Grand Slam champion made it clear that, at some point, it became personal for him to play in front of a hostile audience in order to make a name for himself and top the world rankings. Additionally, he described how he inspired the 35-year-old tennis player and used the same unfavorable energy in a constructive way to enable him to defeat the 20-time major champion repeatedly in various Grand Slam competitions.