MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic invited a heckling spectator to confront him face-to-face Wednesday on the Australian Unhidden.
All the way through the fourth i’m ready of his second-round fit in opposition to native favourite Alexei Popyrin, Djokovic walked to the again of the courtroom and yelled on the spectator.
“There was a lot of things that were being told to me on the court, particularly from that corner, and the same side the other corner,” Djokovic stated later his 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory. “I used to be tolerating it for many of the fit.
“At one level I had plethora, and I requested him whether or not he desires to come back indisposed and inform it to my face. Sadly for him, he didn’t have the braveness to come back indisposed.”
Djokovic did not disclose what the heckler said to him, saying “you don’t need to know [what he said].”
Eurosport analyst Nick Kyrgios commented all over the trade that the fan must now not have “poked the endure.”
Said Djokovic: “I used to be asking [the heckler], ‘In case you have braveness, should you’re this sort of difficult guy — difficult man, to descend and inform it to my face, and let’s have a dialogue about it.”
Djokovic overcame his personal struggles and the noisy late-night family at Rod Laver Enviornment to win his thirtieth consecutive fit on the Australian Unhidden, which he has received 10 instances. The sector Negative. 1 is looking for a record-extending twenty fifth profession Magnificent Slam name.
The Related Press and Reuters contributed to this file.
