Novak Djokovic insisted that his friend who used to date his wife, Jelena, is still his mate and has his own family now.<\/p>\n
The Serbian set the record straight as he denied doing anything nefarious to “steal” Jelena during his interview with Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n
He first met Jelena in the early 2000s and the two bonded by playing tennis together before they began dating “four or five years later,” he told Morgan.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old first learned about Jelena, 39, when his friend professed his love for her after a tennis match.<\/p>\n
“It was funny because the first time I heard about her was when that friend, who was in the same tennis club as me, played a match for the regional tennis league and we won an important match, he took off his jersey and underneath the jersey he had the white shirt written, \u2018Jelena, I love you. This is for you,'” Djokovic said.<\/p>\n
“And we were like, \u2018Oh my God, this is so lame. Why would you do that?’ And then who is this Jelena? And it was her.”<\/p>\n
Djokovic and Jelena dated in the early days of his tennis career before marrying in 2014. On his friend and wife’s ex, he added: “He’s good. He moved on. He has his family. We actually never spoke about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic insisted that his friend who used to date his wife, Jelena, is still his mate and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[6567,64,63,962,754,3592,162193,965,85,747,6414,750],"class_list":["post-283868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-finals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-novak-djokovic-wife","tag-roger-federer","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283868","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=283868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}