Novak Djokovic and the people of Australia ain't exactly on the best terms since the pandemic ... and Aussie wheelchair tennis legend Dylan Alcott says many fans have been unfair to the 24x Grand Slam winner!
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00:00I wanted to ask you about Novak specifically, because he seems like a really good guy, but
00:06I feel like he has a fractured relationship with Australia.
00:10Do you think like we give him a hard go or does he deserve it or how's that relationship
00:16going to mend?
00:17Oh, well, look, he's won like 10 Australian Opens and that's just unbelievable, to be
00:21honest.
00:22And I know his last match he played at the Australian Open, he got booed off the court
00:26because he got injured and people didn't believe him, which is like pretty, it sucks, man.
00:32Like how, who are you to say someone isn't injured?
00:34And when you've won that many, you know, you don't have to be a fan of someone, but you
00:38don't also have to like disrespect and boo them off the court.
00:41But I feel like since the, like the COVID stuff, I feel like Australia is like, you
00:45know, not down with Novak and I feel, you know, that the relationship might not ever
00:50recover.
00:51Yeah, well, I think so.
00:52I think for some people they might not, you know, be a fan and, and you know what we're
00:56like in Australia, we can be brutal.
00:59We love a good bit of tall poppy syndrome sometime.
01:01I can only speak from experience, man, and he's been a supporter of me, wheelchair tennis.
01:07We like do this demo every year at the Ayoho and it's like really highlights that he wants
01:12to like support other people in tennis, which is cool.
01:14But yeah, hey, you know, you can, you can like me, you can not like me, you can like
01:18Novak, you can not like Novak.
01:19We can't control what people think about us, mate.
01:22All I know is I just try and be a good person and do my thing.
01:25And if, you know, people aren't into that, well then fair enough.
01:28And I think Novak just enjoys winning as well.
01:30So I think, I think he'll live.