‘Never Said Only Serbians Cheer for Him’- Martina Navratilova Gets Into an Argument With a Novak Djokovic Fan Over Popularity Debate

American tennis great Martina Navratilova has often found herself the target of hostile Novak Djokovic fans. The 65-year-old earlier took a stance against allowing Djokovic to enter the US Open without vaccination. Once again her words about Djokovic didn’t go well with the fans of the 21-time Grand Slam champion.

Recently she made comments on Djokovic usually having the crowd against him when he plays tennis. Fans reacted angrily toward the American. Later, the former world number one came out with an explanation.

Martina Navratilova responds to angry fans of Novak Djokovic

Djokovic fans tagged Navratilova criticizing her comments. A fan from Canada tagged her and wrote that he is a fan of Djokovic and belongs to Canada. Another fan tried to prove Navratilova wrong by comparing Djokovic’s Instagram followers to the population of Serbia.

This was when the 65-year-old had enough and decided to write down the exact explanation of what she was trying to say. “Do you have a hard time understanding what I said? I said that usually, Novak is the visiting team unless he plays in Serbia, meaning more people cheer for the other guy. Never said only Serbians cheer for him- that would be a stupid thing to say. Bye now,” Navratilova wrote.

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Although Navratilova makes a point here; whenever a tennis player plays a tournament away from home, he/she faces competitors from all over the world and not only the host nation. However, she is fully entitled of having an opinion, and it’s sad that fans behaved that way.

Djokovic in the Laver Cup

Novak Djokovic was away from court for a long time. After clinching his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title, the Serb returned to play for Team Europe in the Laver Cup.

What marked the last tournament of legendary tennis player Roger Federer saw Djokovic cruising to an easy win against Frances Tiafoe in his first match. However, the 35-year-old lost in straight sets against Felix Auger-Aliassime in the next match.

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Prior to that, the duo came face to face only once, when Djokovic defeated Aliassime in Rome. With this win, the Canadian registered his first victory against the Serb.