Džejms La Rosa, poznati novinar televizije Tennis Channel i veb sajta tennis.com je iskoristio priliku da napravi intervju sa Jankom Tipsarevićem na turniru u Los Anđelesu. Ceo intervju možete pročitati ovde, a ovo su najzanimljiviji delovi po mom izboru:
You're new to twitter but you're already following the Tennis Player Twitter 10 Commandments like a pro. Were you born to tweet?
Before I did it, I got advice. 'Don't write stuff just to write it', you know? If you have something interesting to say, put it out there even if you don't tweet for a week. But I see a lot of tweets just like, "I'm having breakfast and the omelette is great." Who cares man? If something interesting happens, I'm gonna post it out there, but if it's not interesting I'm not going to say anything.
Like if you just happen to be lying around with a pirate's eye patch on your eye, then up it goes.
[Smiles.] You know what, I did this in practice. Sometimes I tend to move my head too much when I hit my groundstrokes. My coach was thinking, if I only have one eye, I cannot really move my head that much, I have to keep my opposite eye on the ball. I think it did help. I looked really silly, I was missing balls like for first 15, 20 minutes but then after that was okay.
Do you think this is going to be adopted by the entire ATP? Players are going to be practicing with eye patches?
No, I did this only a couple times. It was an interesting thing we tried. I definitely don't see pirate tennis players anytime soon.
Okay, tell me about your lovely wife Biljana Šešević. You got married July 4th. How did you meet?
She was working for a TV station. There was a Davis Cup 5 or 6 years ago against Zimbabwe in Serbia. She interviewed me and I remember it was just horrible. I was talking about myself and whatever and at one point she asked me, we hear you read a lot of books...
Can you tell me what was the last book you read? I said 'Yeah, the last book I read was…' And I just looked at the camera, I swear to you, for like 20 seconds. Like we say in Serbia, like a sheep looking at a door.
Looking at a door?
Yeah, we say that. I don't know why we say it but it's an old…
Sheep look at doors in Serbia.
Yeah. (laughs) Up until that point, I thought I had control over the interview, being funny and everything, and then I was just completely blocked. And she was really mean, I remember. She was just letting me suffer. She could've said 'Ah, it's not important,' and just continued the interview, but she was wanting to make me feel stupid. [Afterward] I came up with a very lame [pick-up] line, something like 'Can I get your number so I can call and ask when the interview's going to be on?' She said, 'you know what, why don't you give me your number and I'll text you.' And she did. I chased her, and five years later I got her.
What made you chase her, was it love at first sight and that made you freeze up on live television or was it that she was mean to you and you thought, I could like that?
I know that there are guys in this world who like to be, again in Serbia we say 'pulled by the nose…'
That kind of translates, I get that one. Sheep at doors I'm not sure but that one I get.
I swear to you, "like sheeps look at colored doors," I don't know why. It's the most stupidest saying ever, but people say it, at least in Serbia. But you know what, I don't believe in love at first sight. Obviously I fell for the looks at the beginning but I never thought anything serious could happen in these ten minutes that we spoke. I don't believe in these couples who like break up all the time and then get back together. I don't like this drama relationships, and I'm not the kind of guy that if a girl is mean to me that turns me on.
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