TAG: Steve Flink
Jun/15
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Djokovic’s Sportsmanship Lauded By Steve Flink
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The adoring embrace by the heartbroken Novak Djokovic to his conqueror Stan Wawrinka at the end of the sensation Roland Garros final has had worldwide impact -- but perhaps no one was more impressed by the classy gesture of sportsmanship than veteran author and journalist Steve Flink.
Wrote Flink in his column at www.tennischannel.com...
"I have been covering tennis for more than forty years, and have been around the sport for half a century watching the world’s best players in their workplace. I have seen some exemplary sportsmanship from the likes of Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall, Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe, Stefan Edberg and Mats Wilander, Pete Sampras and Rafael Nadal. Among the women, no one was more gracious in defeat than Chrissie Evert... Continue to read full article...
Novak Djokovic · Roland Garros · Stan Wawrinka · Steve Flink