Siddharth Palanichamy

Indian Administrative Service 2020 || Rajasthan Cadre || Views are personal

[Tiempo De Tenis @Tiempodetenis1]

🔥 ¡LA FOTO DEL FIN DE SEMANA!

🏁 Novak Djokovic fue el encargado de bajar la bandera a cuadros en la llegada de Lewis Hamilton en el GP de Barcelona.

[Amit Varma @amitvarma]

Excellent essay.

(You can't go wrong with Bastiat.)

[Pamela Maldonado @pamelam35]

Defiance: Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic is my favorite athlete. Not my favorite tennis player, my favorite athlete, period.

What he did against Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open semifinal is the clearest example of why.

Djokovic confronted a matchup that had already turned structural, where the patterns were clear, the margins were shrinking, and where Sinner had control, and chose to dismantle it anyway.

At 38 years old.

And after losing the first set, there was no hesitation and no extended recalibration. Djokovic instead raised his level, accepted risk without waiting for comfort, went full force, and never let the match breathe.

This was a plan executed at full commitment. You could see the effect on Sinner as the match went on, the frustration building as Novak continued to deny him, forcing him to play from discomfort rather than control.

What separates Djokovic has never been popularity or aesthetics, but his willingness to interrogate his own limits and change accordingly because he doesn’t cling to old versions of himself. He audits them.

Djokovic is ruthless with inefficiency and humble enough to rebuild when the game demands it. Every phase of his career has been defined by reinvention through discipline rather than shortcuts, and this match was another chapter in that pattern.

Edge doesn’t disappear with age when adaptation stays ahead of the problem.

Watching him solve this puzzle in real time, against the version of Sinner that had given him the most trouble, was one of the most remarkable performances I have ever seen.

That was defiance. That is why Novak Djokovic is my favorite athlete.

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

The tennis scoring system! ❤️

[Andrew Marshall @AndyMarshall86]

A great #RolandGarros final. The scoring system in tennis is so good. The dynamic finishing line adds so much drama.

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996 I can visualise how your retirement from the tech world would be. 🥹

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

Feels like this. 😂

[Vivek @viveks1996]

That 25th title at RG has never been more predictable @sid_pal_s

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996 I don’t have the mindset that you have.

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

Though we knew that this was coming, 12 yo me who believed that this man would be split-stepping, sprinting, sliding and fighting FOREVER with all his heart finds it difficult to come to terms with this.
Lost for words.
Farewell Legend 😭❤️🔥

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Mil gracias a todos
Many thanks to all
Merci beaucoup à tous
Grazie mille à tutti
谢谢大家
شكرا لكم جميعا
תודה לכולכם
Obrigado a todos
Vielen Dank euch allen
Tack alla
Хвала свима
Gràcies a tots

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996 Soon.

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@Sudu202 Tell your buddy @SaiGaneshSubra please.

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996 @usacricket Please recruit him.

[Luigi Gatto @gigicat7_]

This story from Pat Cash on Rafael Nadal will never get old 😊

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

❤️

[Olly Tennis 🎾 🇬🇧 @Olly_Tennis_]

🥹🇷🇸 Just two years ago, Novak Djokovic offered to cover the costs of being a professional player for Hamad Medjedovic, this year’s Next Gen ATP Finals Champion.

His father, Eldin, tells the amazing story:

“I remember the second conversation I had with Novak ever, we spoke about specific steps in Hamad’s career.

Novak was presenting me with ideas, what to do with Hamad’s game, and I remember telling him: ‘Nole, I am sorry, but the things you are talking about cost a lot of money!’ And he just keeps going about coaches, what are we going to do and how, and then says:

‘All Hamad needs to do is to work hard, I will take care of the rest’. I told him again: ‘Nole, it costs a lot.'

At that point, Novak told me:

‘Edo, I am not doing this for the money! I make my money elsewhere, my role here is to help.

What kind of man would I be if I would not help the kinds that deserve it, that love tennis and – on top of that – achieve good results?’

I just stand there and he adds:

‘You know what we are going to do? One day, when Hamad makes it, you are going to take someone under your wings and help in the same way.'”

Today was that day. 👏

Source: Sportal 🗣️

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996 Are you playing in Semi finals?

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@prithika_rani Happy IFS Day ma’am! 🇮🇳

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996 One 🐐 watching another 🐐!

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

Wow! 😍 The confidence and belief back in 2006.

[Shane @Shanegupta22]

Novak Djokovic Roland Garros 2006 press conference.

One of my favourite @DjokerNole press conference as it shows his confidence & fearlessness 😊. He did it twice not because he said it but because he deeply believe it 🙌.
#Djokovic #djokovic𓃵 #NoleFam

[Siddharth Palanichamy @sid_pal_s]

@viveks1996 Nice jinx.