Should Novak Djokovic take a leaf from Lionel Messi and retire?

British philosopher Bertrand Russell, the pacifist who was arrested for opposing World War I and spent six months in jail, where he wrote Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, said: “Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.”That perhaps explains why Novak Djokovic angers so many people all the time, particularly op-ed columnists. Of course, angering op-ed columnists isn’t a particularly difficult task, as they are wont to lose their nut over a host of things, from a lack of LGBT representation in Harry Potter to “architectural sexism about upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky”.But one column that lives in this author’s head rent-free was written after Novak Djokovic won his 23rd Grand Slam that argued: “Suppose a tennis player comes along who is 10 feet tall. Every serve is an ace. He never loses a service game.