Boris Becker: "Novak Djokovic has the worst smash of the top-100"

Boris Becker was the youngest player to ever win the Wimbledon tournament: he did so for the first time in 1985, aged just 17 years-old. Champion of six Grand Slam titles in total, Bum Bum Becker only missed the Roland Garros in Paris, where he still played three semi-finals.

Retired in 1999, the German was the head coach of Novak Djokovic for two years. With Becker on his side, Noel was ablet to rise his level between 2014 and 2016, winning a lot of titles and getting the much dreamed Career Grand Slam, winning the Roland Garros 2016 against Andy Murray.

Boris Becker on Novak Djokovic's smash

Talking about Top Level Tennis, Boris went back to a topic he had actually discussed in the past, Novak Djokovic's smash. He did about it: “I'll tell you a secret. I can say this because he is my friend. Do you know who, in my opinion, has the worst smash in the entire top-100 of world tennis? Novak Djokovic. Believe me!" 

The German then continued: “You have no idea how much we two have trained on smash. It's in his head! He thinks the ball is coming and he wants to do something extravagant, like jumping. So I tell him: Keep it simple. Just win the point!" Nole is the only player in history to have won all the Masters 1000 titles at least once in his career.

With 17 Grand Slam trophies, the Serbian is behind only Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, standing at 20 and 19. Last February, Novak won the Melbourne Australian Open for the eighth time, defeating in the final in five sets Austrian Dominic Thiem, winner of Nadal in the quarterfinals.

Djokovic has already confirmed his participation in the next US Open in New York, which will see the absence of Federer and Nadal instead. This is the first Grand Slam tournament since 1999 that will be played without the Swiss and the Majorcan, in a season, like that of 2020, strongly conditioned by the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, which also led to the cancellation of Wimbledon.

In the United States, the virus has claimed more than 170,000 lives and cases of contagion have largely exceeded five million. The situation is also unstable in Europe, with the exponential increase of cases in the UK, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and in the Blacanici countries. The situation is still evolving.

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