Serbia’s Novak Djokovic plays a backhand return to Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics during their men’s singles match on day four of the Roland-Garros Open tennis tournament at the Court Philippe-Chatrier in Paris on May 31, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
PARIS: After everything that Novak Djokovic had put himself through over the past few years, the French Open began with the possibility, finally, of a Grand Slam tournament free of drama.
But three days into the Open, Djokovic has put himself at the centre of the mounting international crisis in the Balkans, where ethnic Serbs and Albanians have clashed in recent days in the conflict over Kosovo.
The message that the Serbian tennis star scrawled Monday night on a plexiglass plate overlaid on a…
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