“If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root,” tweeted his wife Jelena Djokovic on Monday afternoon in Europe. “If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.”She was quoting “The Wisdom of Tao,” and though she did not mention her husband directly, the timing was certainly interesting. It would also be useful to know whether Djokovic agrees, because he was firm last month that his outside endeavors were worth the extra effort. Sitting on a couch in the home he rented for the Western & Southern Open and U.S. Open, he gestured toward his agent Edoardo Artaldi. “But look, I know that I feel deep in my heart that this is the right thing to do because I feel also responsible.

Source: New York Times September 07, 2020 20:21 UTC