"He has enough quality, enough talent, and enough potential to be a top-five player, and everybody expects him to do that"
Novak Djokovic on Andy Murray

World number three Novak Djokovic has accused young British tennis players of lacking the hunger needed to succeed.

The 20-year-old Serbian, who won the Australian Open in January, told BBC's Inside Sport programme: "In the UK a lot of kids are a little bit spoiled.

"If you have perfect conditions and everything you want, you don't know the real meaning of tennis and you don't work as hard as you are supposed to.

"You do not have hunger for success because everything is on a plate."

Djokovic, who was rumoured to have considered taking British nationality himself in 2006, feels it would be relatively easy to increase the number of British players to come through the ranks.

At the moment Andy Murray, aged 20 and ranked 20th, is the only British male in the world's top 200, with Jamie Baker next highest at 241st....more

Djokovic attacks 'spoiled' Brits