Novak Djokovic shouldn’t eat so shadily during changeovers

Opium balls a la joy luck club?

Nadals average groundstroke speed naturally dropped from set 1 to set 2. In Set one it was an incredible 72 MPH but in set 5 clearly affected by fatigue brought on by superhuman effort over 5-6 hours saw his average return speed drop to 75MPH.
Yeah, nothing to see here.

I could care less about the eating incident. Its the rampant EPO and doping in tennis that is so disturbing. No1 sprints around like a maniac for 5-6 hours without slowing down. DJoker is just a slightly better doper right now.

And I happen to really like both of thsese guys but its blatantly obvious to any honest observer. Don't act shocked.

Sorry, but I dont see 'eating' in the three pictures.
Maybe in the video its different but look at the three pictures, not what you think is happening.

Novak was obviously swallowing the evidence related to the murder of JFK. I knew there was a second shooter!

He is clearly DOPING himself! First THE GAS CHAMBER and no Eating behind a towell and trying to hide his food. SHEATER

why would he do that?
people eat all the time dont they

He covered his face the first time so he could inhale some kind of nasal decongestant, probably a) because he didn't want to stick anything up his nose while people were seeing it and b) because he didn't want Murray to see that he was having to take some kind of medication (so he didn't look weak). Chances are Marty is correct and it was some kind of sponsorship thing, either that or he just didn't want to show what he was eating. He would have been drug tested at some point and DataPak is just... wrong... clearly they have no medical experience whatsoever...

Good Lord! It's about time that #$%$ is exposed! It has taken far too long already. Even the Media is onto him now.... Keep this beautiful sport clean please!!!

I have been saying for a year and a half, through all the oohs and ahhs about Joker's sudden tennis epiphany, somebody better be checkin what they guy is shooting, or ingesting or something. Tennis is funny that way. Unless forced, they really don't want to know who's doping. Joker's sudden turn around from frenzied nut job to hercules is no accident folks.

Remember when Djoko claimed that the new-age-crystal-power fake doctor had "diagnosed" him as supposedly having Celiac's disease through the use of a fake medical device? You know -- the doctor hounded by medical authorities in several countries for fraud? The guy who peddles his machine even though it has no actual purpose or diagnostic ability whatsoever?

Amazing that we've heard nothing more about this miracle diagnosis and the magical powers that came with Djoko's "new diet" any more, isn't it? Weird that Djoko still refuses to discuss his "treatment" for his "disease," isn't it?

He's a doper just like Nadal.

I document the most severe lie in Chris Chase's blogging career. (As well as the best grammar)

"After watching the replay as much as I watched that scene of Brooklyn Decker ocean scene from "Just Go With It."

i use a inhaler and that was what Djokovic was doing under that towel. His breathing became much better after that, I like Djokovic so sad he had to hide what he was doing.

he's probably just cheating on his diet

I noticed it during the match. It is creepy and even absurd. I have seen no men's player or women athlete doing it during breaks. Federer, Nadal, Murray and no one else in men's circuit does it. I don't mean to make too much out of this, but it is for such reasons (his team shouts instructions at times in their language) that Djokovic somehow does not seem to come across as impeccable as Roger Federer is. Djokovic is a great tennis champion but no role model yet!

Are you sure he is eating? It looks to me like he's snorting.

Whatever it was, it was just a crazy way to eat it, in front of millions of people focused on YOU! If he had just popped it in his mouth, no one would have even noticed, or said anything. Weird!

I actually watched this game and he did it twice. The second time he was more thorough by covering his entire head and clearly slipping something under. A lot of people are saying he used an inhaler but that's clearly not the case. If you had watched the game you would see that he ate something, looked like a piece of cake to me, hand goes in full and out empty. Unless he swallowed his inhaler it must've been something else.

Although I doubt it was anything illegal. If it was he would be much more careful, to me it looked more like he was covering himself against his opponent and not the world.

He was using an inhaler. It's like using a toothpick and hiding it while using it, it's politer to hide yourself. Politness, something even we barbarians [as you think of us] know, but Americans obviously don''t...

UNBELIEVABLE! Can't you just admit he IS THE BEST ?!

chris chase, he's eating chocolate covered stem cells.