Eres lo maximo Nole, eres un excelente imitador.....

His impersonations are perfect! He acts and move like the person he is imitating. SO FUNNY!!!

He is a maniac. What a sweet, goofy kid. Too bad Fed will have him as an hor d'oeuvre in the Final.

Dan, it is not in Rafa or Maria's charachter to do something like that. let alone in the court.

I think it is something to mock other players in parties or the locker room but something else to do after an official match in a Grand Slam. I posted the "locker room " one in Pete's thread and I found it extremely funny. But apparently Djoko's head is too much in the clouds to understand the time and location was not appropriate for this.

I certainly don't want this to become a tradition to mock playes after official matches.

I think the CBS commentator on court is also to blame. How in the world he thinks it is apprpriate to ask someone to mock a player on court?

I don't think Maria or Rafa be offended this one time. But this should stop here and be limited to "youtube". Also you shouldn't encourage it by putting it on an official website. Its is something else when casual readers post links ( this was also posted on Pete's thread yesterday).

amazing

Very rude at any time but to be asked to do this in front of thousands of viewers both in the stands and in front of the TV? Astounding! CBS should be reprimanding the commentators and someone will no doubt clue in the 'kid' that ridiculing his fellow tennis
competitors is a very poor choice.

Very rude at any time but to be asked to do this in front of thousands of viewers both in the stands and in front of the TV? Astounding! CBS should be reprimanding the commentators and someone will no doubt clue in the 'kid' that ridiculing his fellow tennis
competitors is a very poor choice.

Equal time for an opposing view:

Seems more people were offended by Nole, than were amused. Why?

When did impersonations become taboo? When was Rich Little convicted? And in just which death-row prison is Frank Gorshin being held?

I cannot believe the number of comments critical of DJoker's act II (following a damn good act I). Especially those who think it's okay in a small venue(i.e. locker room) but verboten in the Ashe Cavern. What's the difference?

Seems to me that the effects of the (CURRENT) Puritan Age are moving from the lie-filled, two-faced, split-tongued political realm (or the plastic, lie-filled, two-faced, s-t'd Hollywood...) into...well, into everything. (Dare I bring up pictures of a certain deity?)

The ability to laugh (or cry, JJ fans) is the one thing that makes life, in this newly over-censored world, worth living. Here's Nole, being the only thing he can genuinely be (himself, however young), and he's reamed for it.

You guys want personality instead of backboards (Lendl), and when someone flashes a bit of something different, you berate him? You cry "Poor Taste", "hitting a man (Nadal, Sharapova) when he's down", "youthful indiscretion", etc... because he makes people laugh? Yes, you retort, "BUT NOT AT SOMEONE'S ELSE EXPENSE!" What?
Who's hurting? Nadal? Fed? Roddick? Kirk Douglass? Any American President? (For the past ten years, SNL has almost always opened the show with a pitiful attempt at impersonating a President.)

UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE! (Sorry, I'm imitating someone. In public.)

Keep Smiling

creig
everything has a time and a place. this is fun for one time but not as a continuum.

no one is atacking Djoko. you can say all you want and bring all the accusations you want. this thing has been blown out of proportion specially by CBS and now the poll in tennis.com and I personally don't like it. name it a taboo or anything you want.

Wow...what a sensitive group

Tennis needs a personality and this kid may be it so all of you really need to lighten up on him a bit...tennis needs to get back to the McEnroe, Connors, Borg, Vitas, and Vilas era...when people actually CARED what was happening in the sport...What the kid did last night was great entertainment...as evidenced by the crowd response. Think you could've gotten Lendl or Sampras to do that??? Or I guess all of you wanted to hear the same old carbon copy interviews players usually give out....uh....my opponent played great but I was able to just hold on....I'm expecting a really tough match tomorrow...I'll give it my best shot....BORING......Tennis world...wake up and recognize it when you see a star in the making.....

I agree it's a little tasteless.

People are offended by this? How? The kid is having fun about the person's on court stuff. We used to do this stuff all the time on the courts, about each other. Some people just like to be offended. As a professional in psychology I must ask to those offended, what is it about you that you are offended by Novak's imitations?

creig bryan:
Amen to that.

You ppl who say Djokovich is rude and bla bla,, are lame...

Oh wait i 4got it waz alright when McEnroe use to swear to the poor linesman and Umpire and hardly never get punished, that wasnt rude now was it.....

He's what - 20 years old? Loves to clown around, and has been getting positive reinforcement for doing these impersonations for quite a while now - sheesh. What's the big deal?

This is fun for one time but should not be continued. And impersonations were overplayed.

I love Nadal: I still think Djoker was hilarious and I'm sure he wouldn't do anyone that asked him not to.

Tasteless? Rude? You would prefer, I suppose, Serena Williams' now traditional remarks at her press conference?

FOR ZOLA! -

You may personally not like Djoko's antics - but who are you to say "this was OK once"-
"one time - but not as a continuum." Sound like that originated with a control freak -
when the kid was just having fun and, more important, so was his audience! - There is
enough tension in tennis - the game can stand a little 'light touch' humor as proven by
the audience response. - I loved it!

FOR ZOLA! -

You may personally not like Djoko's antics - but who are you to say "this was OK once"-
"one time - but not as a continuum." Sound like that originated with a control freak -
when the kid was just having fun and, more important, so was his audience! - There is
enough tension in tennis - the game can stand a little 'light touch' humor as proven by
the audience response. - I loved it!

DAVID -

Yes, a little fun is needed. Although Lendl never was 'public' with his antics, lets face it - we are in a different era and this generation (Djoker's) are more open and honest and forthright. Us older generation need to loosen up.

come on boys and girls life is all about imitation inni? we all imitated our parents, tennis players imitated other tennis players. i want to imitate all good people like maria and rafa. may i add the man Jesus Christ to be imitated. God bless you all

come on boys and girls life is all about imitation inni? we all imitated our parents, tennis players imitated other tennis players. i want to imitate all good people like maria and rafa. may i add the man Jesus Christ to be imitated. God bless you all

Djokovic's imitation of Nadal absolutely crossed the line from imitation (which you can't really object to) into parody (which is obnoxious and to be avoided at all costs.)
He shouldn't have been asked to "do" Nadal, but having been asked he should have had the sense and the grace to not take it so over the top that it's reasonable to wonder whether or not he was being mean-spirited. And by the way, that question is bound to come up given that Nadal is one of the two players that Djokovic needs to beat.