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I don't think I've ever seen a crowd so hostile to any player. Ashe Stadium yesterday displayed a more partisan bias than a Davis Cup crowd. Not even Davis Cup fans erupt with roars after a fault. The crowd cheered each time Djokovic missed a serve last night.
So why can't Djokovic get any love? You would expect American sports fans, and New Yorkers in particular, to be on his side given our professed love for the blue-collar, started from the bottom, pulled myself up from my bootstraps type of players. But Djoko gets no love.
It's more the overwhelming love for Fed and the wish for him to get his 18th. It wouldn't have mattered who he was playing against, the crowd would have booed the opponent.
It was not that different at Wimbledon this year, really, with a one eyed crowd.
There are numerous reasons, Djoker gate-crashed the Fedal (Federer-Nadal) duopoly and party, and both were immensely popular.
Djokovic is Eastern European and from the former Yugoslavia, so just like Ivan Lendl from Czech, has that against him and not the flavour of the month.
Unfortunately he will probably never had the same fanatical support as Federer or Nadal, but that has not fazed him or stopped him winning 10 Grand Slam titles.
As one of the very few with double digit Majors, and now multiple titles at 3 Slams, hopefully he will finally get the recognition he deserves.
New Yorkers love personalities and if that person can play tennis then that's good too. Djokovic may be blue collar but he kind of comes off as a bit of an elitist, that doesn't play in NYC.
Look at Monfils vs Isner for the best summary of New York tennis fan psychology you will ever see.
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