Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz Play Tennis Inside Each Other’s Head

MELBOURNE, Australia — The thing about the circus Novak Djokovic has drummed up around himself at the Australian Open is that it’s all going to end.

The way Djokovic’s mind works, it probably already has. The claim in an interview with GQ that someone poisoned him during his detention in Australia in 2022; the battles with the raucous Australian crowds; the row with Tony Jones, the Australian sportscaster who made “insulting and offensive comments”about him and his Serbian supporters; the wading into anti-government protests in Belgrade; it’s all in a little box in some corner of his brain. Carlos Alcaraz is occupying the rest.

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