DJOKOVIC CELEBRATES ELECTRIFYING WIN BY BELTING OUT AC/DC CLASSIC
Unlike last year, when he beat his friend Andy Murray in straight sets and then kicked off an allnight party with a rock band in the locker room, Novak Djokovic admits he dispensed with the band and the raucous dressing room celebrations.
But, after the longest final ever in a Grand Slam, it was only fitting that Djokovic put on a solo act. He chose the AC/DC rock anthem 'Highway To Hell', belting out a few lyrics and strumming the air guitar. After a couple of hours sleep, Djokovic arrived at a customary post-victory photo shoot in a downtown Melbourne park, where he recalled the brief pre-dawn celebrations at Rod Laver Arena and made a half-hearted attempt to sing the refrain. His legs were too tired, and his throat a bit hoarse: 'Oh man, I'm tired.' And so he should be. Djokovic completed a 5-hour, 53-minute 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 victory over Rafael Nadal at 1.37am - ending an epic match with a forehand winner that finally finished off the Spaniard. He defied exhaustion to tear off his shirt and flex his bare torso as he made his way over to celebrate with his friends and family. He was still doing interviews after 4am. It didn't leave much time for celebrating.
'I didn't have any more energy left to celebrate,' Djokovic said on Monday. 'I was preferring my bed.' When he awoke not long after, his body reminded him not just of the incredible events of the previous evening, nearly six hours of physically punishing tennis against one of the game's most ferociously competitive athletes, but also of a near five-hour semi-final two nights earlier against Murray.
(Daily Mail, London)