<p>Rules? Where we're going there are no rules. For world number one men's tennis player Novak Djokovic, it has been as startling a descent over the past three years as it was an ascent for the previous decade-plus. How did such a great sportsman, once a poor kid who grew up in a a war-torn nation hitting tennis balls or shrapnel blasted tennis courts become a caricature of the worst kind of self-obsessed, sanctimonious, hypocritical, rules don't apply to me, sports celebrity?</p> <p>We'll take a look at his high-speed plummet from athlete to admire to the unfortunate non-role model he's become, and examine how his Big Four contemporaries stack up by comparison. For Novak Djokovic, it's a bad look all around even if he may well currently be the best men's tennis player ever.&nbsp;</p> <p>If you have any feedback or suggestions, please contact me at [email protected]. Follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/WreckingToyDept" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakegwilliams/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</p> <p>To read the background material and research for this episode, go to:</p> <p>BBC - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/59999541">Novak Djokovic: Doubts over timing of Covid test</a></p> <p>The Guardian - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/jan/11/feminism-andy-murray-global-icon-tennis-amelie-mauresmo" target="_blank">The unapologetic feminism that turned Andy Murray into a global icon</a></p> <p>San Francisco Chronicle - <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annkillion/article/Novak-Djokovic-s-Olympic-meltdown-shows-16354473.php" target="_blank">Novak Djokovic's Olympic meltdown shows hypocrisy of his Simone Biles criticism</a></p> <p><br></p>