{"id":8969,"date":"2024-10-08T02:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2024-10-08T02:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:43:38","slug":"djokovic-opens-up-about-very-challenging-lifestyle-away-from-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=8969","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Opens Up About ‘Very Challenging’ Lifestyle Away From Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

N<\/a>ovak Djokovic\u00a0opened up that while his life might seem glamorous and enjoyable from the outside, it’s very challenging for him to be away from his family so much.<\/p>\n

Tennis players, athletes, or any human beings in general, go through different stages in their lives. Early on in their careers, tennis players enjoy traveling around the world, seeing new places, meeting new people, or, in some cases, partying in new clubs.<\/p>\n

They are happy to explore the world and try different things, and they may even enjoy constant travel. Things usually change quite a bit as players age, start their families, and maybe also grow tired of the lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Coming to Paris, London, or New York may not be as exciting for the 40th time as it was the first time. On top of that, at the end of the day, it’s not about sightseeing but about focusing on the business side of the trip, and that’s tennis.<\/p>\n

Djokovic has been competing for two decades now. He has seen it all, and he has won it all. He has started his own family and already has two children, son Stefan, who will soon turn 10, and daughter Tara, who is 7 years old.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the constant traveling quickly changed from exploring the world to being away from his family for Djokovic. Now, he’s in China, competing at the 2024\u00a0Shanghai Masters, and it might have seemed like he was enjoying his life in China.<\/p>\n

Before competing at the\u00a0ATP\u00a0Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai, where\u00a0he won his first match against Alex Michelsen<\/a>, he was seen doing a photo shoot on the Great Wall of China and also attending various sponsor activities.<\/p>\n

To people who have never experienced that before, this might seem incredibly attractive and enjoyable, so Djokovic was asked during his press conference in Shanghai how he manages to handle all of these activities while still competing.<\/p>\n

“Well, I mean, we all have different, I guess, routines, different life, different commitments. It’s hard to compare, but, you know, what works for one maybe doesn’t work for another person.”<\/p>\n

However, very quickly, Djokovic turned the answer into one about his family. He sees the side of these activities that many don’t see, and that’s the time that he has to spend away from his wife, Jelena, and his children, Stefan and Tara.<\/p>\n

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“I try to balance things out, and maybe it looks like I am living a perfectly balanced life, but trust me, it’s not like that. You know, it’s very challenging, and I’m trying to enjoy it as much as I can and learn, be the best father, husband I can be, along with a tennis player, and, of course, son and brother as well.”<\/p>\n