Novak Djokovic
Djokovic in 2013, photo by Leonard Zhukovsky/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Date of Birth: 22 May, 1987
Ethnicity: Serbian, Croatian
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian tennis player. He is ranked world No. 1 in singles by the ATP, and has held the top position for a record total 373 weeks, finished as the year-end No. 1 a record seven times, and won a total of 93 singles titles on the ATP Tour. He has the most wins over and matches played against top 10 players.
He is the son of Dijana (Žagar) and Srđan Djokovic. His father, who is of Serbian descent, was born in a village near Trepča, in Kosovo. His mother was born in Belgrade, and is of partly or entirely Croatian descent. His maternal grandparents were from Vinkovci, in eastern Croatia. His siblings, Marko Djokovic and Djordje Djokovic, are also tennis players. Novak is married to Jelena Ristić, with whom he has two children. His family is Serbian Orthodox.
The Đoković family is said to hail from Čevo.
He is said to speak Serbian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, and Spanish.
Novak’s paternal grandfather was Vladimir Đoković (the son of Neđeljko Đoković and Sara Jauković). Vladimir’s parents were from Jasenovo Polje near Nikšić, now in Montenegro, and later moved to Voćnjak in Metohija. The family fled Albanians during WWII, and lived with a relative, named Novak, after whom Novak Djokovic is named.
Novak’s paternal grandmother was named Stanka.
Novak’s maternal grandfather was named Zdenko.
Novak’s maternal grandmother was named Elizabeta Franjić.
Sources: https://www.in4s.net
Genealogy of Novak Djokovic (focusing on his father’s side) – http://www.geni.com
So this is the whole truth about Novak Djokovic ethnicty ,He is a Serb from Kosovo, back then when his ancestors left what is today Montenegro it was called old Hercegovina and in those parts lived mostly Serbs ,even today majority of the people who live there are Serbs ,and they make 30 precent of Montenegro population, so he is Serbian, from his mother side he is mixed because his mother is orthodox religion (significant for Serbs in the region) and she has parts of Hungarian and croatian ethnicty ,so Novak is Serb by ethnicity, and basicly has nothng to do with coratia or montenegro,- his ethnicity and nationality are Serbian
I don’t know about that. Never heard of a Serbian woman named Elizabeta Franjić.
If you reffer to Elizabeta his grandmother from mother side she is Croatian, Djokovic said that the part of his mother side is croatian but his mother Dijana is mixed ethnicity,Novak father Srdjan is a Serbian he said that numerous times
Who with any power to change the data here has suggested anything other than that? You seem to be making a point no one was contesting, really.
Read “NOTE A” on his early life here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novak_Djokovic
Once read, kindly revise the article.
Can I ask it again? Thank you.
He’s the best.
This is incorrect! Novak’s mother is an ethnic Serb from Croatia.
Her ancestral town, Vinkovci, is located in the traditionally Serbian area of Croatia known as the “Krajina”.
There are ethnic/indigenous Serbs from Montenegro, Macedonia, Romania, Albania, Hungary, Austria Bosnia and Croatia, it’s misleading to misidentify them according to their passports/citizenship!
Actually, Novak’s mother is Croat from Croatia. He told it once in the interview.