Novak Djokovic has already set his second residence in Marbella and after starting his preseason in Belgrade has traveled to the Costa del Sol for the last two weeks of training prior to his trip to Melbourne.
‘Nole’ play the ATP Cup as a prelude to the Australian Open, the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the year in which he seeks his ninth wound to get closer to the 20 greats of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. For now, he is satisfied with 17.
The session partner of the best tennis player on the planet is the Spaniard Mario Vilella. “Today we have completed the second training session together,” the man from Elche tells MARCA.
In position 191 in the ranking, travel to Doha on January 6 to play the preliminary phase of the Australian Open: “Training with Novak is very good for me. You can tell that he is the number one because of how he hits the ball, how he runs, how low and how clean his ball goes, because of the way it moves … I am very grateful for all the advice you give me.“.
Vilella began its preparation in December in Equelite after getting lost in the Amazon (the Colombian part) with former tennis player Santiago Giraldo. In the photos he uploaded to his social networks, he showed his tattoos. The one of a butterfly stands out, just below the chest: “It symbolizes the transformation of the person over time. I feel identified“.
“Now I am in the group that they have here in Marbella Pepe Imaz and Marko Djokovic, Novak’s brother,” he says. His goal, at age 25, is to take another step in his career and enter the ‘top100’.
“I hope I can get closer, but it is not easy at all because of the punctuation system”, indicates a Mario who is expectant of the evolution of the pandemic in France and Turkey, where he will play challenger category tournaments in case of not passing the ‘qualy’ of Australia.
Vilella already supported Djokovic’s new association, baptized with the name of PTPA, even before the people met the Serbian phenomenon: “Whatever there is a link between players and tournaments I think is good for everyone.”
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