Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, currently number 4 in the world, should dedicate himself to “other things” and accept that both the Spanish Rafael Nadal (2) and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, who leads the ATP ranking, are better than him, has assured the father of the Serbian athlete, Srdjan Djokovic. “Federer is the way he is, a cold Swiss. He is a great rival, a great and enormous champion, but not so great to be like Novak,” Djokovic told Serbian sports portal Sportklub.
According to Djokovic's father, although Federer has 20 Grand Slam titles, ahead of Nadal's 19 and Serb's 17, and holds the record for 310 weeks in a row as No. 1, those numbers are not going to hold for long. “Why do you think you still play tennis at 40? (Federer will be 39 in August) Because Nadal and Novak follow closely. He simply cannot accept the fact that they will be better than him, “he said.
Djokovic Sr. recommended that Federer dedicate himself to “other things, raising children, skiing”, because “tennis is not everything in life”. Novak Djokovic, however, assured on Thursday that Roger Federer is “possibly the greatest tennis player in history”.