Jerzy is a wonderful player, but he definitely has some PR problems, and he needs to fix that.
After his incredible tournament in Paris in November when he reached the final coming from nowhere, the Pole made headlines only for his incredible tantrum in Melbourne when he started to shout as a possessed man… and now this one…
There are reports on the web that during an interview he defined Djokovic a fake and Federer a guy that thinks he is above everybody.
The Interview
Apparently in a recent interview at a local newspaper he said (google translation)
“I don’t have any idols; I’m not following the examples of anyone. I liked Sampras for style, Safin for the character. I like watching Federer, but lately, I am missing Nadal because he hasn’t playing for 8 months.”
Then Jerzy elaborated that he liked Nadal “Because there is no fake, he behaves like in life.”
Djokovic is a fake
“Djokovic is fake, he shows off and acts. Federer is a guy who wants to be above everything. In this context there might be something unnatural of him, hard to feel he is one of us” said Jerzy
“When lower ranked players were protesting because Slam organizers were paying us only 14% of their income, Nadal, Murray, and Djokovic were on our side, though there are millionaires, Federer said that according to him is OK.”
You can see some tension building up in the locker room…
Here his famous tantrum in Melbourne
