{"id":159882,"date":"2025-01-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=159882"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T15:35:07","slug":"nole-stands-his-ground-djokovic-refuses-to-give-an-interview-to-a-tv-station-that-mocked-serbian-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nole-stands-his-ground-djokovic-refuses-to-give-an-interview-to-a-tv-station-that-mocked-serbian-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"NOLE STANDS HIS GROUND: Djokovic refuses to give an interview to a TV station that mocked Serbian fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Serbian <a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/tag\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">tennis <\/a>player <a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/tag\/novak-dokovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> spoke at a press conference after advancing to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. After finishing the match against Ji\u0159\u00ed Lehe\u010dka (3-0), an unusual situation occurred when Novak refused to give an on-court interview.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it was initially thought that the reason was a hostile crowd, it was soon discovered that Djokovic was angry with channel &#8220;Nine&#8221;, which is the official broadcaster of the first Grand Slam of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More specifically, he was angry with the channel&#8217;s journalist, Tony Jones, who during one broadcast turned to Novak&#8217;s fans and began to make at least inappropriate jokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Novak is overrated, he&#8217;s past his prime\u2026 Get him out,&#8221; Jones said before turning and adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad they can&#8217;t hear me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s why Djokovic reacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to say why I didn&#8217;t give the interview. A few days ago, a famous sports journalist working for the official AO broadcaster NINE mocked <a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/category\/serbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Serbian <\/a>fans and insulted me. Since then, he has decided not to publicly apologize, nor has the channel &#8220;NINE&#8221;, so because they are the official TV rights holders, I decided not to give a statement. I have nothing against Courier or the Australian public. There was no opportunity to say what I think on the court at that moment so I did it. I&#8217;m leaving it to channel &#8220;NINE&#8221; to do what they think they should,&#8221; Djokovic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE IN SERBIAN:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0258fctqzFmSnEbyiQWVoYUPPQeFJPG2mm8dBPjfG1Xg2bkuoPamgKEvMengFRfLbAl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He confirmed that the crowd had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Well no, nothing special. Something different happens in every match. I&#8217;ve already explained why I didn&#8217;t give the interview, it&#8217;s not because of the crowd but because of channel &#8216;NINE&#8217;,&#8221; added Novak, who will not give interviews for that channel until they apologize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also talked about the problem with Craig Tiley, the tournament director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The same thing I told you. I haven&#8217;t seen him since that happened with the journalist, he communicated with my agent. He&#8217;s a great guy, he always tries to get the players everything they need. I just wanted him to know why I did it and what my reasons were. I told him if they want to punish me because I didn&#8217;t give an interview, that&#8217;s okay, I accept it, because I think it&#8217;s something that needed to be done and that&#8217;s it,&#8221; Djokovic continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could this motivate him further?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No. Not particularly. I&#8217;m very determined already. I&#8217;m not using this to add fuel to the fire. 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After finishing the match against Ji\u0159\u00ed Lehe\u010dka (3-0), an unusual situation occurred when Novak refused to give an on-court interview. While it was initially thought that the reason was a hostile crowd, it was soon discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":100000167963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[339,1508,436,4222,1237,252,340],"class_list":["post-159882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-australian-open","tag-australijan-open","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-novak-djokovic-3","tag-srbi","tag-tenis","tag-tennis","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159891,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159882\/revisions\/159891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}