President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić referred to Pink just in time for the finals Australian Open, which has been sacred in every decent Serbian home for almost two decades.
And everything in that televised morning went as expected. While in Melbourne we could still hope for a surprise, in the studio Pinka surprises are impossible. In sports the ball is round, in propaganda everything is planned.
To begin with, where and when Vučić appears. You don't have to be one of the evil tongues to notice the regime's intention to hide somewhere ĐokovićTo reduce it.
On the portals of the regime media, the first news was, of course, Vučić's "address", although such an "exclusive" is seen more often than once a day. That's how much on Friday Vučić jumped people with TikTok!
When he/she tricks you
Somewhere, when Vucic was talking about how he was supposedly rooting for Djokovic with all his heart, the latter became speechless in Melbourne. The first serve was no longer lethal, the young Carlos Alcaraz could go further into the court and play his best tennis.
Unlike Djokovic, Vučić did not have a duel for almost fourteen years. Once, from the opposition, he was not bad in televised confrontations. Today, it only appears where questions are served loosely and forehand winners are guaranteed.
And this year is difficult in the world, but we preserve stability, and the blockaders are ruining it Serbia, they spend the summer in Zanzibar, they don't have a plan and program and so on. He added that they "cheer for the death and unhappiness of people, because unhappiness brings them a chair they don't deserve."
"They did not go to the protests to support some program, but to support the idea that I am a murderer, that they persecute and, often, kill my children," said Vučić.
It goes without saying that Vučić is a victim again. During all these years, and especially since Djokovic supported student, Vučić was able to stop the tabloid vomiting after Djokovic with one phone call where he was called "Ustasha" and similar names. But of course he didn't stop.
When a man holds the strings of most of the media, and public opinion still eludes him, he tries to return to familiar ground, to play the long slice, what he knows with little risk. All this was seen in Vučić's new "conversation" - there will be roads, there will be railways, there will be money, although it is difficult, but he dreams of a great future.
On the hard surface of Melbourne, Djokovic was not able to return to what he knows best and what he did so masterfully in the first set. It's much more difficult in a fair game than in a rigged interview anyway. In the end, he laid down his racket in front of a boy who is currently a better tennis player.
Who will retire first?
The end of Djokovic's career is near, everyone knows that. Whenever he retires, he will leave as the greatest tennis player of all time.
Vučić, on the other hand, threatened the audience in the Sunday special that he has no plans to retire or step down from power. He said he ordered the ministers to present him with a plan for the development of Serbia until 2035. Then Vučić will be old-age pension age, even though he never had a real job in his life.
When he lost, Djokovic gave Alcaraz an almost paternal hug. The biggest can lose. Small souls cannot even imagine defeat. When the people don't want them, they ignore the people.
Bookies predicted Alcaraz as the winner in Australia, there was no mistake. It would be interesting to see, if any bookmaker would dare, what the odds are that Vučić will retire from politics rather than Djokovic from sports.
The odds may not be bad. After all, what speaks better of a kind of panic than the frequency of people jumping off the TV. Even when the great Djokovic plays.
