The Djokovic household moved to Athens in September 2025, and the ages printed beside Stefan and Tara’s names should have moved too

Novak Djokovic’s 2 Children: Stefan and Tara

Stefan is the elder by two years and ten months. He was born in Nice on 22 October 2014, three months after his parents married, and his father announced him the same day: “Stefan, our baby angel, was born! I am so proud of my beautiful wife Jelena!” Tara arrived on 2 September 2017, announced with a photograph of four hands and the line “Jelena and Tara are my angels, and Stefan is a proud big brother who wants to take part in baby chores.” Both children have the same two parents, Novak Djokovic and Jelena Djokovic, born Jelena Ristić, who married on 10 July 2014 on the island of Sveti Stefan in Montenegro.

Two children, two birth dates, and still a steady supply of wrong ages. The line “Stefan Djokovic, 10” and “Tara Djokovic, 7” was briefly right in 2025 and has been wrong ever since, because it was published with no date attached to it. Both figures below are stated against 20 August 2026, so a reader can re-run the subtraction on any future morning instead of trusting a stranger’s number.

Stefan is 11 and Tara is 8, so both are minors, and that sets the boundary for what belongs on this page. Between them their parents have put four things on the record: two names, two exact birth dates, the order, and a short run of milestones they chose to publish themselves. Nothing beyond that appears below, because nothing beyond that is theirs to give away. A photograph of a child holding a racket is not a career, and it is not written up here as one.

Novak Djokovic’s children at a glance

Two children, and nothing has changed about that since September 2017. There is no third child, no adoption, and no earlier branch on either parent’s side adding half-siblings to the picture. Stefan and Tara were both born to Novak Djokovic and Jelena Djokovic inside a marriage that began on 10 July 2014. Two parents, one marriage, two children: a structure that takes a sentence to state and that goes wrong the moment ages start being copied from one profile to the next.

The conflicting ages online are all the same sum, done on different days. Stefan turned 11 on 22 October 2025 and stays 11 until 22 October 2026. Tara turned 8 on 2 September 2025 and turns 9 on 2 September 2026. So a March 2026 match report, a July 2026 magazine feature and this guide can disagree about the numbers while agreeing completely about two birth certificates. A certificate is issued once. A subtraction has to carry the day it was done.

Who is the mother of Novak Djokovic’s children?

Jelena Djokovic, born Jelena Ristić. She and Novak met as teenagers at school in Belgrade, and they married on 10 July 2014 in a Serbian Orthodox ceremony on the island of Sveti Stefan in Montenegro, three months before Stefan was born. Everything below hangs off that one verified parent branch. Both children carry the same two parents, in the same order, with no stepfamily to disentangle and no same-surname stranger from a tennis database quietly spliced into the family tree. Small families attract that sort of error from both directions. Bryan Cranston’s one daughter gets the opposite version, with television characters counted into the total.

The couple’s shared public work predates the children. The Novak Djokovic Foundation’s own about page states that it was founded in 2007 by Novak and Jelena Djokovic, which is a first-party, durable fact and the safest description to use. Internal job titles are a different kind of claim: foundation material has described Jelena as its national director and, later, as its chief executive. Each of those is a description of a period, not a standing 2026 position, so this guide keeps the co-founder line and dates anything narrower.

That boundary column is the working part of the table, not decoration. It is what separates a family guide from a dossier. The same discipline runs through the other tennis households KidsCo has mapped, including Roger and Mirka Federer’s two sets of twins, where four children grew up beside a tour schedule and the verified record still stops well short of what a search engine will happily autocomplete for you.

Stefan Djokovic: what the record actually establishes

Stefan Djokovic was born on 22 October 2014 in Nice, France, and his father posted the news the same day. That same-day parental announcement is the strongest class of evidence a birth date can have, and it is why 22 October 2014 holds up against thinner references that print only “October 2014” with no day attached. Where a source gives the month alone, the month is not a contradiction of the day; it is simply a less precise version of the same fact, and the precise version wins.

The best-documented public milestone of his childhood is dated 15 July 2018. Wimbledon does not admit children under five to the show courts, and an exception was made so that a three-year-old Stefan could watch his father win the final. Novak described the result in his own words afterwards: “it feels amazing because for the first time in my life I have someone screaming ‘Daddy! Daddy!’” That is a dated family milestone the parents chose to make public. It does not establish a routine, an address, or anything at all about the rest of that summer.

The rest of what circulates about Stefan is mostly age arithmetic that has drifted. He turned 11 on 22 October 2025 and turns 12 on 22 October 2026, so the widely copied “Stefan, 10” heading has been out of date since the autumn of 2025. He also appeared alongside his sister when their father won Olympic singles gold in Paris on 4 August 2024, beating Carlos Alcaraz 7-6, 7-6. That photograph supports exactly one thing: the family was in the stands that afternoon.

Does Stefan Djokovic play tennis?

Yes, and his father is the source. Speaking in 2022, Novak was explicit about how it started: “I’m not forcing him to play tennis. It’s really only his pure desire to step on the court … he’s really in love with the sport.” Four years later the description had changed in a way parents everywhere will recognise. After his second-round win at Indian Wells on 8 March 2026 he said: “I’m getting to the stage where I’m playing decent speed rallies with my son. Soon enough, he’s probably going to beat me.”

In the same answer Djokovic raised the LeBron and Bronny James comparison, the father and son who played together in the NBA, and doubted he could stay competitive long enough for a tennis version of it. The arithmetic behind that doubt is worth spelling out, because it is the honest answer to “when will Stefan turn pro”: Stefan turns 18 on 22 October 2032, by which point his father will be 45. A parent musing about a scenario eleven seasons away is a quote, not a career plan, and this guide treats it as one.

That last row matters more than it looks. Search for a junior player with this surname and results come back for boys registered to other countries, plus a near-identical Stefan Djokic, and none of those entries carry evidence that they belong to this family. The confusion is the reason so many profiles casually promote an 11-year-old to “rising junior star”. It is the same trap that ruins profiles of Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi’s two children, where a famous surname pulls in records that were never theirs.

Tara Djokovic and the birthday that is thirteen days away

Tara Djokovic was born on 2 September 2017, and her father announced her with a photograph of four hands, his own, Jelena’s, Stefan’s and the newborn’s, and the words: “Jelena and Tara are my angels, and Stefan is a proud big brother who wants to take part in baby chores.” The announcement is first-party, it is dated, and it also fixes the birth order beyond argument: Stefan was already there, and Tara completed the family.

Her birthday is the cleanest possible demonstration of why undated ages rot. On 20 August 2026 Tara is 8. On 2 September 2026, thirteen days after this page was checked, she is 9. Any profile that prints a bare number without the date attached is guaranteed to be wrong for most of the following year, and hers is the number that flips first. This is also why the master table above carries the check date in its own column heading rather than in a footnote.

On tennis, one thing has been said publicly and by a parent: asked about her at the 2023 Australian Open, Novak said she is not into tennis at all, and that his matches do not excite her much. That is the whole of the verified record on the subject, and it is genuinely useful to a reader who typed the question. Her section runs shorter than Stefan’s because her parents have said less about her, which is their call and not a gap for a stranger to fill. Padding an eight-year-old out to match her brother’s paragraph count is the point where a family guide stops being a reference and starts being surveillance. The other tennis household on this site is Serena Williams’ two daughters, where the elder has been around courts since infancy and the record still stops at what her parents chose to publish. Grown children change that calculation entirely: the five in Wayne Gretzky’s family are all adults now, publishing their own work, so the guide follows the record rather than the parents.

Where do Novak Djokovic’s children live now?

In Greece. The family relocated to Athens in September 2025, immediately after that year’s US Open, and the move was reported at the time and then confirmed at government level. On 13 February 2026 the Greek immigration minister, Thanos Plevris, publicly welcomed the arrangement, saying it was an honour that Djokovic wished to stay in the country with his family. A serving minister putting the arrangement on the record is about as durable as a residence fact gets for a private household.

Novak gave his own account in a November 2025 interview. He said the relocation had not been pre-planned, that it followed changes both privately and professionally, that the priority was an environment where the children could grow up well, and that the family felt welcome in Greece. Reporting through late 2025 tied the timing to the fallout from his public support for Serbian student protests, and a Greek residence permit was subsequently granted. Those are two separate claims with two separate evidence trails, and this guide keeps them separate.

KidsCo names the country and the city because Novak and a serving government minister both put them on the record. It stops there. No neighbourhood, no street, no school and no daily pattern appears on this page, for the same reason none appears in the KidsCo guide to Cristiano Ronaldo’s children, another household that has moved countries mid-childhood while the parents stayed extremely public and the children did not.

Novak Djokovic in 2026: the record his children are growing up around

Their father is 39 and still on tour. He holds 24 Grand Slam singles titles and 101 tour-level titles, and he completed the career Golden Slam in Paris on 4 August 2024. The most recent of those trophies came in the city the family now lives in: he beat Lorenzo Musetti 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to win the Athens title on 8 November 2025, becoming, at 38, the oldest ATP Tour singles champion since the tour was established in 1990.

The 2026 season has been a run of deep results without a trophy. He reached the Australian Open final on 1 February 2026, beating Jannik Sinner over five sets in the semi-final and then losing to Carlos Alcaraz, and at 38 years and 255 days he became the oldest man to reach that final. Indian Wells ended in the fourth round, Roland Garros in the third, Wimbledon in the semi-finals, and Cincinnati in the second round. He is ranked world number 5 on the most recent list reviewed here.

What current Novak Djokovic profiles should correct

The gap between what is knowable and what gets published about this family is unusually wide, because the search demand is enormous and the verified record is small and mostly parental. Five shortcuts do the bulk of the damage, and every one of them is fixable in a sentence. The pattern is familiar from the other global-sport households on this site, including Lionel Messi’s three sons and Michael Jordan’s five children.

Not one of those repairs needs a fresh source or a leak. Each is a matter of putting a date next to a claim and then refusing to promote it beyond what the date supports. A dated interview quote stays an interview quote. A dated appearance stays an appearance. A 2007 founding stays a founding, rather than quietly becoming a job description nineteen years later.

Djokovic family timeline, checked to 20 August 2026

Six lines is all it takes to see the method this page runs on. Two birth dates carry the weight, because they were announced by the parents on the day and they never change. Everything else is an event with a date on it, reported as an event. That is the same standard applied to Steph and Ayesha Curry’s four children and across every other profile in the KidsCo family guide library.

Questions people ask about Novak Djokovic’s children

How many children does Novak Djokovic have?

Novak Djokovic has two children with his wife, Jelena Djokovic: son Stefan, born 22 October 2014, and daughter Tara, born 2 September 2017. There is no third child, no adoption and no children from an earlier relationship on either side of the family.

What are the birth dates of Novak Djokovic’s children?

Stefan was born on 22 October 2014 in Nice, France, three months after his parents married. Tara was born on 2 September 2017. Both dates come from the announcements Novak posted himself on the day and from reporting published at the time.

How old are Stefan and Tara Djokovic in 2026?

On 20 August 2026 Stefan is 11 and Tara is 8. Tara turns 9 on 2 September 2026 and Stefan turns 12 on 22 October 2026, which is why any age published without the date it was calculated on goes stale within months.

Who is the mother of Novak Djokovic’s children?

Jelena Djokovic, born Jelena Ristić, who met Novak at school in Belgrade and married him on 10 July 2014 on the island of Sveti Stefan in Montenegro. She co-founded the Novak Djokovic Foundation with him in 2007.

Does Novak Djokovic’s son Stefan play tennis?

Yes. Novak has described it in dated press conferences since 2022, and at Indian Wells on 8 March 2026 he said he was playing decent speed rallies with his son. No ranked junior tournament record for Stefan is established by the sources used here.

Where do Novak Djokovic’s children live now?

In Greece. The family relocated to Athens in September 2025, and the Greek immigration minister publicly confirmed the arrangement on 13 February 2026. Novak has said the move followed changes both privately and professionally and that the family felt welcome there.