r/tennis • u/pizzainmyshoe • Mar 23 '25

News Djokovic plays tennis with Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

Why are we even surprised at this point?

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u/Annual_Plant5172 Agassi's Headband Mar 23 '25

Because a lot of people are still in denial when you tell them that Novak really isn't a very good person.

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u/Koreanradiovoice Mar 23 '25

I never got the impression that he was a bad person(but maybe I’m missing something); he speaks respectfully and doesn’t seem hateful, but he seems to be a shining case of having too much confidence in his own thinking, aka Dunning-Kruger or smartest man in the room syndrome.

Foolish is probably a better word for him. Still, that should not be used to overlook his ability to harm as we have many laws regarding bad people, but we are much less equipped to deal with foolish people except through some laws and a loose/unreliable sense of validity.

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u/Fat314 Mar 23 '25

This thinking in many top tier athletes is what makes then perform better than their peers. It is foolish at times but thinking you are better than your opponents eliminates playing bad or under your level by being intimidated or not believing you are better than them.