Novak Djokovic and Andrey Rublev practiced their basketball skills in Cincinnati before the semifinals of the tournament. Andrey Kirilenko, the President of Russian Basketball Federation, also attended the hooping session. “Some hoops with @ak47russ from earlier today.
@andreyrublev what do you think of our skill?” Djokovic captioned the video.
Rublev’s reaction after losing to Djokovic at Wimbledon
Andrey Rublev bowed down to Novak Djokovic at this year’s Wimbledon edition.
Here is what the Russian said after the match.”I don’t know. I feel like he’s playing better and better compare our matches. I think today I was, for the first time, ready enough to play a good match against him. The previous matches mentally I was not ready at all.
Even the match that I beat him in Serbia, I was just lucky. I don’t know, he was just not playing. On top of that, he was tired at the end of the match. It’s not because of my game or something. I think today was the first time that I was ready to play, and I was there, and I had these little chances that in the end I didn’t make them.
He makes them. That’s why he’s the Novak, one of the greatest players in history,” Rublev said.”Of course I was nervous. It’s normal when you go to play the player that never — I don’t know, not never, but didn’t lose for a long time.
He’s on grass playing his best tennis ever. Of course, you feel nervous because I have also ambitions. I want to go as deep as possible,” Rublev said.