President of the Russian Tennis Federation (RFT) Shamil Tarpishchev said that the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic I was unable to attend the national team’s friendly match Russia And Serbia football due to a busy schedule.
Earlier, a source from in Serbia reported that world number one Novak Djokovic would not be able to attend the friendly match between the Russian and Serbian national teams.
— Your task was to invite Djokovic to this match. Why didn’t it work?
— Calendar: it has a series of American tournaments. If he misses any of the tournaments, he will drop in the rankings and he is now first. Well, he’s injured, he’s being treated. But it wasn’t clear until recently, I even talked to his uncle about it a few days ago.
— If there had been no problems with the schedule, would he have come?
– Certainly. He’s our friend. I remember when the Serbs won the Fed Cup, I went to the locker room. Novak stood up and wrote on his racket: “For brotherhood with Russia,” and he gave it to me. We have a warm relationship. I remember before the London Olympics, at the training camp, he came to us and played football. I even stood on the gate. “Are you crazy? You will break your finger! – I said. This is the kind of relationship we have, ”reports a correspondent, reporting Tarpishchev’s words.
The Russian team will face the Serbian team on March 21. The match at the VTB Arena in Moscow will start at 8:00 p.m. The channel will broadcast live the match between the Russian and Serbian national teams.
Source : MatchTV
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