A Young Serbian Player Has a Not-So-Secret Weapon: Novak Djokovic

“She was asking me about how it feels to be on the big stage,” Djokovic said. “Of course, you can say something, but then you really need to experience it. Hopefully she can use that to her own advantage, the motivation and inspiration, to be at the biggest stage to play against one of the best players of the world.”

Danilovic, 20 broke into the WTA Top 100 after winning the Moscow River Cup in 2018, when she was only 17, becoming the first player born this century to win a WTA title, but she struggled to win consistently.

Djokovic emphasized that Danilovic was still “really young.”

“She’s got the goods,” Djokovic said. “She’s really, really strong, fit, tall, lefty; don’t have many good lefty servers in both the men’s and women’s game. I think it’s quite an advantage. If she’s serving well, she can do damage to a lot of players.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/sports/tennis/us-open-naomi-osaka-olga-danilovic.html