Novak Djokovic’s unusual Wimbledon celebration defined as Serb eats grass

Novak Djokovic is seeking to win a twenty fourth Grand Slam at present at Wimbledon, the place he’s already a seven-time champion. An eighth triumph on the All England Club would see him tie Roger Federer as essentially the most profitable male participant within the historical past of the grass-court main. If he does so, Djokovic will reproduce his now trademark celebration.

Djokovic has an uncommon ritual by which he eats the grass on Centre Court after profitable a title. He has carried out so ever since his first triumph means again in 2011. He defeated Rafael Nadal after which proceeded to kneel all the way down to style a few of the floor.

Explaining the surprising celebration afterwards, Djokovic admitted: “I didn’t know what to do from the emotions that I had at that moment. It was an incredible feeling so the tasting of the grass came spontaneously. It tasted really good!”

And the spontaneous second has since turn out to be a practice that he repeats each time he claims the golden trophy. The Serb added in 2015 that the grass, which is perennial ryegrass, tasted “very, very good”.

He additionally stated: “It’s a little tradition obviously. As a kid I was dreaming of winning Wimbledon, so, like every child, you dream of doing something crazy when you actually achieve it — if you achieve it — and that was one of the things.”

If Djokovic claims an eighth championship at SW19 this afternoon, he’ll you should definitely as soon as extra pluck a number of blades of grass to munch on. The world No 2 cracked a joke about his grass-eating celebration on the Hurlingham Club final month within the build-up to Wimbledon.

He defeated Frances Tiafoe after which rejected a request to eat a few of the courtroom’s grass, laughing and saying: “I only eat Wimbledon grass.” Before this 12 months’s Championships began, Djokovic additionally took to Instagram to put up a clip of him chowing down some greenery at SW19 and wrote: “Remembering the taste and hungry for more #visualisation.”

The second seed has thus far defeated Pedro Cachin of Argentina, Australia’s Jordan Thompson, three-time Slam-winning Swiss Stan Wawrinka, Polish seventeenth seed Hubert Hurkacz, the seventh-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev and Jannik Sinner – the Italian eighth seed – to make the ultimate.

He should beat Carlos Alcaraz, the world No 1 and prime seed, to clinch an eighth Wimbledon triumph. The Serb noticed off the younger Spaniard final month within the French Open semi-finals however his opponent was battling calf cramp on the time which noticeably hampered his efficiency.