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Today, Explained

Novax Djokovic

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How the best-ranked men’s tennis player in the world went to Australia to become the greatest of all time and ended up being detained. Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey with help from Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Destination Canada.

0:03.7

Sometimes life just gets overwhelming.

0:05.7

It's time to take a breath.

0:07.7

Unwind and relax in breath taking Canada.

0:10.4

The rugged western coastline is hung to ancient rainforests and incredible wildlife, while

0:15.1

the Rockies are home to lakes and majestic mountains.

0:18.1

Further east, discover sweeping parkland in Ontario, or Serene countryside life in Canada's

0:23.7

Francophone culture.

0:39.8

The top ranked men's tennis player in the whole wide world recently boarded a plane to

0:44.1

Australia with hopes of winning another title and instead wound up an immigration purgatory.

0:50.0

And before we explore how exactly that happened, there are a few things you need to know about

0:54.5

Novak Jokovic.

0:56.1

First, he has a pension for getting himself into trouble.

0:59.1

You might remember when he was recently booted from the US open after losing a point,

1:03.9

when he smashed a ball in anger and accidentally hit a line person in the throat.

1:09.0

Second, he's really obsessed with what he puts in his body.

1:11.2

He famously attributes much of his record-breaking success on the court to a Serbian nutritionist

1:16.8

who held a piece of white bread against his stomach in 2010 and determined he had a gluten

1:21.7

allergy.

1:22.7

And lastly, Jokovic, if he wins this Australian open, it will go down as the goat, the greatest

1:28.3

men's tennis player of all time, title 21, edging out Roger Federer and Raphael Nadal

1:35.4

at present.

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