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Q. Did you get inspired by that one famous photo of...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yes. I gotten inspired by that photo, and was talking with a team of people my sponsor had. So we came up to this idea of playing some tennis in the air. You will see.
Q. Have you lost your sanity?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: You will see. I can't talk more than this, otherwise I will get fined. (Laughter.)
Q. How's your football going?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Football is great. Football is great. Actually, my voice, I'm too tired playing football.
Kidding. It's cool, you know. We have this grass area around behind the practice courts which we use. A lot of players use to stretch out, to do running and things like that. We played a lot of football, European and American in the past. This year we got goals, so when we saw goals there, we were so happy.
Q. How many goals have you scored?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: How many? I haven't I think I haven't scored one goal, but I have assisted a couple, a couple of winning goals.
Q. Just talk about how important this stretch, Indian Wells and Miami, means to you, doing this tournament and Miami? None of you, Rafa, yourself, Roger, don't have too many points to defend here or the next tournament.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Uh huh. Well, it's extremely important, definitely. And for the reason you have just brought up. There's no points, no real major points to defend in this couple of weeks. So I'm definitely in the momentum and definitely playing the best tennis of my life, and I'll be trying to use that on the courts.
Q. When you have had any time to reflect on the Australian Open again, Novak, what is the single most important element of satisfaction? Is there one single element that gives you the greatest satisfaction?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: It's a Grand Slam, you know, even though I won it before. But any Grand Slam you win, every time you win it, it's very special. I mean, it's the greatest feeling that a tennis player can experience, I think, because there is only four Grand Slams a year, four most prestigious tournaments in our sport. The whole sport world is watching, and all the best players are competing there, best of five. To be able to win a trophy after two very exhausting and hard weeks against the best players in the world is a dream come true, yeah.
Q. Winning the Davis Cup, what has that done for Serbia and for you and for young people? You would say football is a bigger game in your country and basketball probably. But what did winning the Davis Cup do?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yes, well, we are a nation of team sports, and tennis is a new sport in our country. Well, when I say new and young, I mean just couple of years, and already in these couple of years, we managed to win a couple of Grand Slams in the men's and women's tennis, and a Davis Cup trophy, which I think is the highlight of tennis in Serbia, and I think one of the most important achievements of Serbian sport ever.
It was very historical, very emotional. I don't know how to describe it more, because in the individual tournaments when you're winning trophies, you're winning trophies for yourself mostly, you know, and then you're celebrating with your team of people that are working with you.
But here you are playing for your country, and you have the teammates supporting you all the way through every point. It's a very special competition where you get to feel the team spirit, and it's the only competition where we get to feel the team spirit, to be honest, throughout the whole year in tennis.
That's why we always give our best, and that's why this achievement that we had last year in December has special places in our hearts. For me and for all my colleagues from the national team, it's the biggest achievement we had in our careers.
Q. With the public, too, people?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah. The arena we played in, we still didn't lose matches there. We played last three years there. We didn't lose. Every time we play, especially on the last day, on Sunday, we have from 18 to 20,000 people watching. You know, it's a great atmosphere, and especially for Davis Cup final, which was, you know, obviously a great occasion, and people felt that.
You know, we grew up watching basketball players, volleyball players, and water polo, these great legends of our support twinging European and World Championships and Olympic medals, and then the whole city and even ourselves, we went on the streets celebrating with the people when they won as kids. And having to see the same situation, that somebody is celebrating for you, is just remarkable. It's the best feeling you can experience.
Q. More kids starting to play tennis now in Serbia?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yes. Yeah, it's amazing, you know. As I said, the nation, the team sports, mostly you can see around the city, basketball, basketball courts, football fields. Now you can see a lot of tennis courts. You can see kids improvising with the tennis, you know, courts and racquets and playing up against the wall. You know, with their dreams and imaginations, it's incredible to see.
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