Leading tennis-player Novak Djokovic had months of bad form culiminating in a shock defeat by world number 72 Marco Cecchinato in the French Open quarter-finals in June.
But then things changed: he won Wimbledon in July and has now beaten Juan Martin del Potro in straight sets to win a third US Open title.
So what galvanised him?
Nothing less than a hike with wife Jelena up the Montagne Sainte-Victoire! He said, “We sat down and we just looked at the world from that perspective. I breathed in the new inspiration, new motivation. I thought of tennis, thought of the emotion that tennis provokes in me. It was all positives. I just felt like I had a new breath for this sport.
“The rest is history in terms of results. I played finals of Queen’s, won Wimbledon, won Cincinnati, and won US Open. I guess we’ll be hiking some more very soon.”
The player then added: “I strongly recommend you to climb it. Some great things will happen in your life.”
What an inspiring story!
aixcentric 
What a great story! I love hiking around Mont Sainte-Victoire. Maybe there’s a Wimbledon title in my future? 🙂
Who knows…there maybe hope for us all, in different ways! I expect the track up there to be even busier than usual now!