Novak Djokovic takes a stand against close-talkers in postmatch interview

I once had a professor who shuffled a little bit every time he spoke. Another salient fact: the department hosted very boring weekly seminars in very hot rooms that were followed by receptions with very unlimited amounts of very bad wine. Everybody went. These seminars are responsible for probably eight of my top 10 worst hangovers.

This professor would go, too, and bravely try to talk to us about What We Had Learned (that we were sleepy and would probably not go on for PhDs, principally). And each time he would take a little step, and each time whichever students he was addressing would have to take a little step to follow him as he drifted left and right, backwards and forwards. By the end of a conversation with him, you would find yourself on the other side of the room.

I am not sure which of us, plastic cup filled to the brim with the kind of cheap wine that probably never involved grapes, first realized that taking a little shuffle toward a shuffler would send them shuffling in a direction of your choosing. I am not sure who first decided to make a sport of trying to pin this professor in various corners. I am very sure we were extremely successful.

Anyway: just a little food for thought, Djoker.