Will Deyo abandon his $10 million mansion and move his family? Tsitsipas reveals the most heartbreaking moment of his career

Greek media reported that the 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic intends to settle in Greece after retiring. Djokovic is said to have lunch with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week and is expected to receive a "golden visa" (i.e., a five-year residence permit).

If the news is true, Djokovic will leave his mansion in Marbella. According to Hello Magazine, the mansion is worth $11.53 million. Djokovic, his wife, Yelena, and their children, Stefan and Tara, have lived there during the pandemic and have seen cameras walk into the home with nine bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a games room, a spa and tennis courts.

The Greek press notes that Djokovic chose to settle in Greece instead of his native Serbia because of a political disagreement between him and the Serbian government. At the end of last year, Djokovic publicly supported student protests against the Vučić regime, writing on platform X:

"As someone who believes deeply in the power of youth and aspires to a better future, I believe their voices should be heard. Serbia has great potential, and well-educated young people are its strongest resource. What we need is understanding and respect. With you, Novak. ”

Since then, reports have reported a sharp deterioration in relations between Djokovic and the Serbian government. As a result, they believe that the tennis legend plans to settle in Greece after retiring.

It is worth mentioning that Djokovic and Greek star Tsitsipas are both friends and rivals. Since 2018, Djokovic and Tsitsipas have played each other 14 times on the ATP Tour, including two Grand Slam finals: the French Open in 2021 and the Australian Open in 2023, both of which Djokovic beat. Despite this, the two maintained a good relationship.

After winning the 2023 Australian Open, Djokovic singled out the similarities between the two countries in his post-match speech: "I would like to end my speech with the theme of Greece and Serbia. We are all relatively small countries, we don't have a deep tennis tradition, and we don't have a lot of top players to look up to. So I want to say to the youngsters who are watching me fight Stefanos right now, anything is possible. Keep dreaming, no matter where you're from. ”

Recently, Tsitsipas recently recalled the moment he learned of his grandmother's death after losing the men's singles final at the 2021 French Open. At the time, that match was his first advance to a Grand Slam final. With the first two sets winning, the Greek rising star was widely expected to win the title.

However, his opponent of the day was the legendary Novak Djokovic. The Serbian showed a remarkable fighting spirit to complete a 6-7(6) 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 to claim his 19th Grand Slam title.

Tsitsipas and his girlfriend, fellow tennis player Badosa, recently appeared on the tennis channel's Prakash in Primetime, where host Prakash Amritraj asked if they had experienced trauma.

Tsitsipas has said that the 2021 French Open final was the most painful defeat of his tennis career. "I was heartbroken by the sport I love the most," he says. Losing to Djokovic at the French Open and being reversed from a two-set lead was a very painful defeat for me. It was a tough time for me because from the moment I stepped onto the pitch I had a sense of foreboding and couldn't tell what it was. ”

Subsequently, the 12-time ATP singles champion revealed that just hours after losing the final, his father, Apostolos, told him the bad news: his grandmother had passed away 15 minutes before the start of the match. And this grandmother was the closest person in his family.

Tsitsipas said emotionally: "A few hours after the match, I was depressed because I couldn't win my first Grand Slam title. When I got back to my room, my father came over and told me that my closest grandmother had passed away 15 minutes before I stepped onto the court for a Grand Slam final. It was crazy at that moment because I could really feel that something wasn't right. I could feel that something was wrong with me. ”

Tsitsipas has also been in average form this year. At the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters, Tsitsipas plays as the defending champion. But his title defense came to an end in the quarter-finals. Italy's Musetti bounced back after a heavy 1-6 defeat in the first set to knock Tsitsipas out of the tournament.

Speaking after the match, Tsitsipa admitted that the defeat to Musetti was his second-most painful defeat in recent years, behind the 2021 French Open final. In the pre-tournament press conference that followed, he spoke again about the experience. Tsitsipas was also disappointing at this year's French Open, where he was shockingly early after a surprise second-round defeat to qualifier Matteo Gigante.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Spark)