Novak Djokovic and Wife Jelena Djokovic’s Relationship Timeline

Karwai Tang/WireImage Novak Djokovic and wife Jelena Djokovic are high school sweethearts — but maintaining a relationship as a tennis star isn’t always easy. “Us getting together was like science fiction almost,” Jelena told Hello! magazine in June 2023. “I was a student barely getting by, and he was a very young tennis player who also had no money to spare on expensive trips. Airplanes were, at the time, something utterly out of our reach. We contrived and devised these plans how to meet, how to make our relationship work.” While Jelena relocated to Milan for college, Novak was busy travelin