EVEN when Novak Djokovic was a teenager, his coaches were sure that there was “just one objective in his head – to become world number one”.
At the tennis training school in the suburb of Munich, where the Serbian spent his formative years, his trainers recalled a youth who had a “starving desire” for the game.
“At lunch break, the first to finish eating was always Nole,” said his coach for two years, Wolfgang Reiner, referring to the player