Novak Djokovic admission: “Great frustration in recent times.”

How to go from frustration to success: Nole’s word.

Novak Djokovic speaks at a press conference before the final of the ATP 250 tournament in Tel Aviv, explaining how he managed to regain his victories and lucidity after months of great difficulties and especially the prolonged absence from great tennis.

“I think the environment I grew up in also had a lot to do with it. As a child in the 1990s, I experienced the war and so many difficulties in Serbia,” Djokovic recalled. “My parents went through great hardships just to find a way to have a meal for dinner. Then I fell in love with tennis, which is not a cheap sport, and my family helped me. But when you can live such a life, and you know what it means to have nothing, you can only appreciate it.”

Djokovic then admitted that he has also faced difficulties psychologically during these months, “At such a high level, moments when you feel frustrated happen. And it happened to me during this period. However, I am happy to be back playing the way I did here, with the right mental balance to win. I came to Tel Aviv to play four singles matches, and that’s how it will be.”