Srdjan Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Срђан Ђоковић, translit=Srđan Đoković; born 25 April 1961) is the father of tennis players

Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl, Новак Ђоковић, translit=Novak Đoković, ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 ...

Djordje Djokovic Djordje Djokovic ( sr-cyr, Ђорђе Ђоковић, translit=Đorđe Đoković; born 17 July 1995) is a Serbian inactive tennis player and tournament director of the Serbia Open, held at his brother Novak's Novak Tennis Center. He is the younges ...

, and

Marko Djokovic Marko Djokovic ( sr-cyr, Марко Ђоковић, translit=Marko Đoković, ; born 20 August 1991) is a Serbian former tennis player. He is the middle of the three children of Dijana and Srđan Đoković, younger brother of Novak and elder to D ...

. A former professional skier and ski coach, he later became an enterpreneur. Supporting and following his son Novak Djokovic worldwide, he gained notoriety for several missteps and strong statements in Novak's favor.

Early life and education

Djokovic was born in Kosovska Mitrovica to parents Stanka and Vladimir, and grew up in the nearby town of Zvečan. He has a sister, Jelena, and a younger brother, Goran.After completing high school, he moved to

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to study law, but did not finish the studies. Later on, the whole family moved to Belgrade. During winters, he worked as a ski coach in the winter resorts of Kopaonik and Brezovica, where he met his future wife Dijana in 1986.

Career

Djokovic is a former professional skier and ski coach, who worked in Kopaonik. He is currently the owner-operator of the ''Red Bull'' pizza restaurant and a sports shop in the Serbian mountains. He opened the restaurant, which has no connection to the drinks company with the same name, in 1999. While some accounts describe Djokovic as a former player at the Kosovo football club

KF Trepça Klubi Futbollistik Trepça, commonly known as KF Trepça, is a football club based in the southern part of Mitrovica, Kosovo. The club was founded in 1932.Alo!: KF Trepça is the first Kosovo Football club to gain promotion in to the Yugosl ...

, the 2022 book ''Ein Leben lang im Krieg'' (

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: ''A lifetime at war'') by Daniel Müksch reports a lack of supporting evidence of this.In 2011, Djokovic attempted to unseat Serbia Tennis Federation president Slobodan Živojinović, but ultimately failed to do so.In January 2023, he was seen during the

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tennis tournament near the Rod Laver Arena with a pro-

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motorcycle gang called the

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Vasyl Myroshnychenko Vasyl Volodymyrovych Myroshnychenko (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Володи́мирович Мирошниче́нко; born June 19, 1981, Ternopil) is an Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia since March 2022. Ad ...

, the Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, called for Djokovic to be banned from the subsequent tennis match in the competition. Djokovic subsequently stated that he would not attend the January 27 semi-final to avoid disrupting it. Srdjan Djokovic later stated that he did not intend to post with the pro-Russian gangsters and mistakenly thought he was posing for photos with Serbian tennis fans.

Family life

Novak Djokovic Trophy Wimbledon 2019 -edited

Djokovic is married to Dijana Djokovic (). They are the parents of three sons:

Novak Novak (in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene; Cyrillic: ), Novák (in Hungarian, Czech and Slovak), Nowak or Novack (in German and Polish), is a surname and masculine given name, derived from the Slavic word for "new" (e.g. pl, nowy, cz, nový, s ...

(born 1987), Marko (born 1991), and Djordje (born 1995). In 2022, Djokovic criticised the

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for not letting his eldest son, Novak, enter the country due to

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public health rules.

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Early life and education

Career

Family life

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