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Novak Djokovic and his craving for love

After 20 years of professional tennis, 94 ATP titles including 38 Masters 1000 wins, a record 389 weeks as the World number 1, and a staggering 23 Grand Slams later, Novak Djokovic has won every possible thing on the ATP tour multiple times. He has earned more money than anyone else in Tennis and has a lovely family to support him yet one thing evades him every single day of the life when he steps on the court on the grandest of stages. Tennis can make you feel lonely when things are not going your way. There is no hiding space and the player has to face everything all on his own. Sometimes it's the antipathy within the crowd, sometimes the overwhelming support for the home favorite, and more often than not it is the underdog who gets all the cheering from the crowd. It is probably a combination and culmination of all these things over so many years in the case of Novak Djokovic.  It would not be fanciful to say that the Serbian has gotten used to not just playing against the oppon...