Sport
Main article: Sport in SerbiaSerbia is very successful in many sports. Among the most popular sports are football, basketball, water polo, handball, volleyball and tennis.
The two most popular football clubs in Serbia are Red Star Belgrade and FK Partizan. Their supporters are the Delije and the Grobari, respectively. The Serbian national football team participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
In basketball, Serbian clubs are successful and participate regularly in European competitions, where they often make quarter-final and semi-final appearances. The Serbian national basketball team is successful in international competitions, having won several FIBA World Championship, EuroBasket and Olympic gold medals.
Serbian men's and women's teams are also World Champions in sports such as water polo and volleyball.
Serbian tennis plaeyes have been successful. The no. 2 men's tennis player in the World is Novak Djoković, with a record of winning five Grand Slam Singles titles. Janko Tipsarević, Viktor Troicki, Jelena Janković and Ana Ivanović are also successful. The Serbia Davis Cup team won the 2010 Davis Cup Final held in the Belgrade Arena.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Drag racing is a sport of egos, and it’s all male egos.”
—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)