Djokovic\u2019s fiery message to critics after \u2018disrespectful\u2019 question<\/a><\/p>\n‘People wanted to retire me’ – Djokovic | 05:25<\/p>\n
Former Wimbledon finalist Tim Henman echoed Cash\u2019s sentiments in trying to sum up Djokovic\u2019s out of this world comeback. <\/p>\n
\u201cAn absolutely staggering performance from Novak Djokovic,\u201d Henman said on TNT Sports and Eurosport <\/p>\n
\u201cWrite this legend off at your peril. What he has produced today was absolutely remarkable. <\/p>\n
\u201cBall striking of the highest quality. He went toe-to-toe with the defending champion and took him down after four hours and nine minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Darren Walton believes Djokovic\u2019s performance not only put an exclamation point on his GOAT status in tennis, but now he can lay claim to being the greatest sportsmen of all time.<\/p>\n
Former British number one Annabel Croft was also struggling to find superlatives to do justice to Djokovic\u2019s awesome feat. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am speechless. That was an extraordinary contest, totally absorbing to watch,\u201d Croft said on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra <\/p>\n
\u201cSo fascinating in terms of the tactics. Sinner was so clinical in the first set and Djokovic came out swinging after, throwing the kitchen sink at Sinner.<\/p>\n
TOPSHOT – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates victory over Italy’s Jannik Sinner after their men’s singles semi-final match on day thirteen of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 31, 2026. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST \/ AFP) \/ — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE –Source: AFP<\/p>\n
\u201cBeautiful serving, the odd serve and volley, this is one of the most special contests.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were treated earlier with Alcaraz and Zverev, now Djokovic giving away 14 years to his opponent. What a contest.\u201d <\/p>\n
Experts and pundits flooded social media with praise, shock and awe at Djokovic\u2019s brilliant display to leave him one win away from a 25th career Grand Slam and 11th at the Australian Open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wimbledon Champion Pat Cash has led a chorus of praise for Novak Djokovic\u2019s staggering victory over defending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2620,34341,63,689,11528,232814,12185,232820,962,232816,2057,216008,232818,178129,43,136013,2328,147268,4746,647,673,44,3592,677,232819,62968,7493,231794,3595,232813,232815,670,37659,156176,41,39,42,40,660,60162,232817],"class_list":["post-450182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ball-striking","tag-break-percentage","tag-brilliant-display","tag-british-number","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-darren-walton","tag-europe","tag-exclamation-point","tag-extraordinary-contest","tag-featherweight-champion","tag-headlines","tag-home-city","tag-italy","tag-kitchen-sink","tag-mark-st-john","tag-melbourne","tag-new-south-wales","tag-news","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-oceania","tag-odd-serve","tag-pat-cash","tag-semi-final-win","tag-singles-semi-final-match","tag-southern-europe","tag-special-contests","tag-staggering-victory","tag-sydney","tag-tennis-tournament","tag-tim-henman","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria","tag-william-west","tag-world-comeback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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