{"id":261858,"date":"2025-11-04T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261858\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:36:12","slug":"novak-djokovic-explains-why-he-uprooted-family-to-move-to-a-new-country-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261858\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic explains why he uprooted family to move to a new country | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novak Djokovic<\/a> is back in action at this week\u2019s Hellenic Championship, an ATP 250 event in his new home of Athens. The 24-time Major winner relocated his family from their home of Belgrade, Serbia, to Greece just a few weeks ago – and he\u2019s already loving it.<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s two children, Stefan and Tara, have reportedly already started school in Athens<\/a>, while the world No. 5 has joined a local tennis club. Ahead of his opening match at the Hellenic Championship, the 38-year-old explained why they chose Athens as their new home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of historical, religious, cultural, social ties between Greece and Serbia that is a big part of the reason why I\u2019m here,\u201d the Olympic champion told CNN Greece.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also because, of course, the weather, the food is incredible. You are on one of the nicest coastlines in Europe, in the world. I just love the lifestyle. I really feel that the Greek and Serbian people are like brothers, and so this is the biggest reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Djokovic and his family have yet to fully commit to living in Greece, but so far, they\u2019re loving it.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe are, as a family, trying to see how the life goes here, the experience. It\u2019s only been less than two months. So we will see how it goes, but so far, as I said, it\u2019s been a very positive experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank all the Greek people that I met the last couple of months that I\u2019ve been here in Athens with my family, that welcomed me and my family members with open arms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been super friendly, kind, generous, wanting to help, so it does feel, very much, like at home for me and my family members. So it\u2019s been a very positive experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love being here, and I\u2019m obviously very excited to go out on the tennis court, hopefully in front of many people in the stadium, and hopefully perform well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic is back in action at this week\u2019s Hellenic Championship, an ATP 250 event in his new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,153766,3592,95782,85,747,750],"class_list":["post-261858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hellenic-championship","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-novak-djokovic-family","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}