{"id":182052,"date":"2025-07-08T22:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=182052"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:04:48","slug":"waited-25-hours-in-the-rain-for-one-greeting-the-story-of-voja-who-never-misses-dokovics-matches-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/waited-25-hours-in-the-rain-for-one-greeting-the-story-of-voja-who-never-misses-dokovics-matches-video\/","title":{"rendered":"WAITED 25 HOURS IN THE RAIN FOR ONE GREETING: The Story of Voja, Who Never Misses \u0110okovi\u0107’s Matches! (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you know who Voja Ili\u0107<\/strong> is? Or what the famous queue, or “The Queue,” at Wimbledon is? If not, don’t worry \u2013 you’ll soon find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s start with Voja, or Vojislav Ili\u0107<\/strong>, who can be described in many ways, but we’ll choose the one that will likely mean the most to him. Voja is one of Novak \u0110okovi\u0107’s biggest and most loyal fans<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’ve been following Nole since the beginning of his career, for 18 years now, although I watched tennis even before that. I watched Jelena Jankovi\u0107 a lot, especially in Rome, because I live two hours from Rome,” Vojislav Ili\u0107 begins his introduction to B92.sport readers and continues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When I was younger, I didn’t have the means to travel, because tennis is really an expensive sport to watch. The figures are huge \u2013 plane, hotel, food, tickets… It’s not easy, but I work as a waiter and decided to work double shifts of 16-18 hours to have money for travel! So far, I’ve been to a large number of tournaments, of course, multiple times at each… Rome, Monte Carlo, ATP Finals in Turin, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Dubai, Serbia Open, Malaga, Davis Cup, Olympics in Paris, Bercy, Australian Open…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wimbledon Queue Experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, this Serbian tennis enthusiast \u2014 not for the first time, of course \u2014 made it to Wimbledon, but the journey to the complex was the least of his problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who don’t know, almost the only way for an ordinary person to attend matches at the London Grand Slam is to \u2014 stand in line. But not just any line. It’s “The Queue<\/strong>” \u2014 which literally means queue in English \u2014 but it’s a queue where you have to camp the day before<\/strong> you want to enter Wimbledon, as it’s the only way to buy tickets, even the cheapest ones (grounds pass) which allow you to watch all matches on smaller courts and stay in the complex all day for about 20-30 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Every year at Wimbledon, I’m in the front rows. There’s no strategy, I just organize earlier with my good friend Milan Ognjenovi\u0107, we set up a tent and then the waiting begins! You have to sleep in a tent. Luckily, this year the weather was beautiful. Usually, you wait the day before the match, for 18 hours… Last year I waited 25 hours in the rain, and when I got in, De Minaur canceled the match with Nole. Oh, I cried then!” Voja recalls, continuing about his adventures in “The Queue”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The atmosphere where the tent is set up is beautiful for me, because people are very good. Everyone helps each other, we play cards, we drink… We spend many hours together there, there’s always some wine, beer, we go for food. They give out free strawberries there! There’s also some music, it’s very nice and important to me, because it feels like I’m on vacation. There, we all wait for the moment to see Novak live, and there are really a lot of our people. I’ve never seen any incidents. The only thing that sometimes happens are some stolen things. You have to be careful, because people from the side come in, and it’s interesting that foxes constantly come to feed. With them, it’s normal, like they’re cats!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pic.twitter.com\/Ov7ByiCa8d<\/a><\/p>— OvoOno (@OvoOnoX) July 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>\n