Less than two weeks after being disqualified from the U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic`s frustration boiled over once again as he smashed his racket in a fit of rage during his 6-3 4-6 6-3 win over Dominik Koepfer in the Italian Open quarter-finals on Saturday. Novak Djokovic was broken to love in the sixth game of the second set following which he threw his racket on the ground, drawing a warning from the chair umpire.
“Well, let me tell you it`s not the first nor the last racket that I’ll break in my career,” Djokovic, 33, told reporters. “I have done it before, I’ll probably do it again. I don’t want to do it, but when it comes, it happens. That’s how I guess I release sometimes my anger. And it`s definitely not the best message out there, especially for the young tennis players looking at me. I don’t encourage that, definitely. But, look, we`re all people. We all…