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Novak Djokovic’s uncle, Goran Djokovic, was elected president of the Serbian Tennis Federation (TSS) on Friday, with ambitions of building a national training centre, the organisation announced in a statement.
Goran Djokovic, currently vice president of the Serbian federation, will replace Mirko Petrovic, who is retiring after having been president for the last nine years.
The brother of Novak Djokovic’s father, Goran is very close to the tennis legend. For seven years he directed the ATP tournaments in Belgrade and Sofia.
“My goal is to improve what we have already started to do. We don’t have premises, we don’t have a national training centre and I want to fix this,” Goran Djokovic was quoted as saying in a statement after the vote at an extraordinary general assembly.
Djokovic, 37, currently occupies the fourth position in the ATP rankings after losing in the third round of the US Open, where he was defending champion, to Australian Alexei Popyrin.
Winner of 24 Grand Slam trophies, Djokovic has not won a single tournament on the circuit in 2024, but he did win the gold medal at the Paris Games, the title that completes the best list of achievements in the history of tennis.
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2024-09-20 15:22:15