Factors scoring: WATCH ball boy get the higher of Novak Djokovic as pair play at controversial new match

Novak Djokovic changed opponent Viktor Troicki with a ball boy for 3 factors throughout his self-congratulatory tennis match in Serbia, persevering with his appeal offensive after commentators voiced security issues in regards to the occasion.

The world primary, who issued an apology after shouting in a ball boy’s face throughout a livid row with an umpire when he beat Andy Murray within the 2015 Miami Open last, invited the teen to switch Troicki in a stunt lauded as a “priceless second” on social media by his Adria Tour match.

His cherubic opponent gained the primary level with a dinked winner on the web however misplaced his last two factors, narrowly failing to capitalize on Djokovic offering serves weaker than the one that when noticed him provide an apologetic hug to a ball lady he hit with one in every of his traditional ferocious opening gambits.

Djokovic then grinned as he strolled to the opposite aspect of the courtroom to embrace the teen, holding his head to his chest earlier than ushering him off courtroom in entrance of a packed crowd in his homeland.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic made a successful return from the COVID-19 enforced break solely to be upstaged by a ball boy for some extent 😁 pic.twitter.com/lZD3etJkfp

— Sportstar (@sportstarweb) June 14, 2020

The courtroom nice acquired criticism in the beginning of the charity match on Friday from observers questioning the knowledge of ignoring distancing and protecting tools precautions to play matches throughout a pandemic that has gripped Europe and killed a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals worldwide.

Though the variety of confirmed deaths in Serbia on account of the virus to this point has been comparatively low, sporting occasions by which massive crowds keep in shut proximity to one another for extended durations of time have been strongly linked to outbreaks of the possibly lethal an infection.

Well being officers in Djokovic’s homeland should not at present imposing a lockdown or advising individuals to put on masks and gloves to scale back the danger of spreading an infection, contradicting the scenes going down in lots of nations and at main sporting occasions corresponding to soccer matches, the place stringent security measures have been applied as a part of a tentative return to motion.

Djokovic, who has been outspoken towards the idea of vaccinations and referred to as security restrictions being deliberate for the US Open “excessive”, was additionally pictured embracing his fellow tennis stars participating within the exhibition throughout an accompanying soccer match.

He invited a ball boy who was defending him from rain throughout a break on the 2014 French Open to sit down subsequent to him whereas he took over umbrella duties, incomes reward for his generosity alongside cynicism from some viewers who claimed he had acted for the advantage of his picture, with greater than 1,000 viewers giving the footage a thumbs-down vote on YouTube.

Former champion Goran Ivanisevic hit again at doubters, denying that the vastly influential Djokovic had urged fellow stars to play on this 12 months’s deliberate US Open regardless of widespread reservations over participant and public security.

“He’s trustworthy,” insisted Djokovic’s coach. “I assume individuals have one thing towards it instantly if you’re trustworthy. As for the US Open, Novak expresses his opinion.

“He didn’t inform anybody to not play. He all the time places these on-duty critics in his pocket.

“He’s nonetheless man, he nonetheless desires to assist everybody. There’s time for each youngster, for each image, however there are all the time critics. He endures it with a smile. He places the critics in his left or proper pocket and that shall be it.”

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