Watch Novak Djokovic become best friends with a French Open ball boy

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Watch Novak Djokovic become best friends with a French Open ball boy
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They don't call him the "Joker" for nothing. When rain halted play of Novak Djokovic's first-round French Open match yesterday, the affable tennis player befriended a ball boy to kill some time.

Noticing that the ball boy was also getting wet, Djokovic invited him to sit down next to him and held the umbrella himself. The nervous-looking ball boy was surprised when Djokovic let him hold his racket, but they appeared to hit it off quickly.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.