The biggest news after first 3 months of the season seemed to be that Roger Federer has not won anything yet. At the beginning of April, even bigger news, or news of the year, could be... well I'm not the one who is spreading gossip around but since everyone started talking about... rumors say Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova may be a couple.
Swedish site dedicated to tennis (tennistalk.com) published the above picture of Novak and Maria at a party in Miami. Here can be seen video of Maria and Novak leaving the club together on the back seat of Maria's cars while her agent was driving: http://x17video.com/celebrity_video/while_you_were_sleeping/maria_sharipova_at_night.php
This all is just a rumor, since this Novak's fan blog covers everything related to Novak, I covered the story or rumor whatever it is at the moment. Tennistalk.com said more that Novak enjoyed himself at the Opium Garden in Miami on March 28th with Maria and him not leaving the club until very late (later than midnight).
Tennistalk.com goes a step further presuming that Novak's late night partying is the cause of Novak's most shocking defeat ever since he entered Top 10, loss at Miami Open where he was defending champion in the first match against World #122 Kevin Anderson. Tennistalk.com could surely be right about that, no one saw that loss coming especially after Novak won Indian Wells a week earlier.
Tennistalk.com states more: 'It also appeared that he had been drinking alcohol even though we do not have any pictures of it, just our eye-witnesses'. Since there were no pictures or video, we will discard this fact being too much of a speculation.
Being on the subject, let us look back at how Novak - Maria connection started. Novak's impersonations of other players, one of the funniest things inside and outside of the world of sports last year, brought to Novak great popularity with the fans and media, ATP official website calls him 'the entertaining Serb'.
Novak's most successful impersonation was of Maria Sharapova. Maria commentated Novak's impersonation of her with a smile saying if she is to do Novak impersonation it would be a very boring one since all she would do is tap the ball before the serve for infinite period of time (referring to the fact that Novak taps the ball against the ground too many times before serving).
Novak's impersonation of other player, especially of Maria, became so popular that wherever Novak played fans and hosts at the tournament asked him to do the impersonations for everyone's enjoyment.
Maria than said that Novak is offering nothing new and that his constant impersonations of her are becoming boring. Novak also felt he done the impersonations too many times but, like it could have been seen in the video we posted in February, fans and hosts of the tournaments started insisting on Novak to do impersonations to make everyone smile.
Novak had and still has a girlfriend he is with for some time now. Maria, to my knowledge, is single and I don't recall her having a boyfriend in recent year(s). Did Maria started having sympathies towards Novak after his first impersonations of her stays unclear.
Just, remarkable thing happen during US Open in August/September 2007. Maria lost early in Round 3 but did not go home to Florida and stayed in NYC to follow US Open later matches that 'concidently' Novak played and went all the way to the Final.
Not just attending Novak's game, Maria was sitting in the Novak's stuff box seats, along with Novak's family and coaches. Some may say that many celebrities were in the Novak's stuff box seats including one of the most famous American actors Robert De Niro, so no wonder Maria was there too consider Maria is Russian and Novak is Serb, 2 nations closely related.
Amazing was Maria's behavior while sharing the box seats along with Novak's family. Maria, a donghty tennis winning machine on court, seemed like the nicest girl around every mother could wish for her son, her make up and clothing was measurable, she was smiling and shining as if she was enjoying being almost a part of the family.
In the following months nothing happened on Novak - Maria subject, Novak was the same with his girlfriend and Maria single. At Hopman Cup in early January some talks started about Serena Williams having a small crush on Novak (I mean how good impersonator Novak really is, they say you won a half of women's heart by knowing how to make her smile:).
In the Hopman Cup final match USA-Serbia, Serena was all in smiles and at some extent it made me wish to check if Serena has a boyfriend so I could cover that rumor in full. Hopman Cup passed with no breaking stories or rumors to follow.
The sea was still all until March 28 and a party at Opium Club in Miami and today, April 10th, that tennistalk.com published the newest rumor public. At the time of being, Novak is resting and will skip Estoril starting next week while Maria is playing at Amelia Island where she has won today against A. Medina Garrigues and tomorrow will play in the Quarterfinals.
By the way, Novak and Maria are the same age, born in 1987, Maria in April (19th, next Saturday), Novak in May
