Novak Djokovic fans know he has been on a plant-based diet since 2010.  The plant-based diet helped him dominate the world of tennis since then.

Djokovic has frequently attributed his old diet his allergies and other health problems he was having at the time.

In the interview, Djokovic, says, not surprisingly, that he avoids gluten, dairy, and refined sugar in his diet.

He also mentions in the interview that he eats a lot of veggies,  through smoothies and salads.  He doesn’t like anything too heavy in the morning because that’s when he trains.

Djokovic also discusses how Dr. Cetojevic reached out to him and his family after seeing him struggle with respiratory issues at the Australian Open.

In his book, Serve To Win, Djokovic goes over his diet plan and how that changed his life.

While Djokovic’s diet plan may sound extreme, it is not uncommon for players to have a strict and sometimes strange diet. It works for them and makes them better athletes.

The Swiss Indoors at Basel has canceled the 2020 edition of the tournament. It would have been the 50th anniversary of the event. The golden jubilee event will now be held in 2021.

Though the tournament has had big-name champions including Pete Sampras and Bjorn Borg, it is a tournament often associated with its home town hero Roger Federer.

Federer is a 10-time champion at Basel and holds a 24-match winning streak. He is currently recovering from surgery and is out for the rest of the year. 

Unfortunately, coronavirus won’t spare any of us. And social distancing or matches played behind closed doors were out of the question for us from the start – Tournament president Roger Brennwald

The tournament announced on IG:

Tennis friends,
As a result of the Corona pandemic, the world’s third-largest indoor tournament has been definitively canceled. The ATP has now formally approved the request to cancel the Swiss Indoors Basel, after the tournament management of the Swiss Indoors had already declared in mid-June that it would be irresponsible and unfeasible to hold the tournament in view of the medical, social and economic uncertainty.