{"id":774348,"date":"2026-07-02T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:11:10","slug":"novak-djokovic-challenges-rory-mcilroy-to-tennis-match-for-masters-green-jacket-in-wimbledon-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774348\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic Challenges Rory McIlroy to Tennis Match for Masters Green Jacket in Wimbledon Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Novak Djokovic noticed 2026 Masters champion Rory McIlroy in the crowd wearing his Green Jacket during his second-round victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas on Wednesday and had a funny request for the golf star. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Rory, what a beautiful jacket. Is that a Masters jacket? It must be. Round of applause for Rory for Masters, please. I want that jacket,&#8221; Djokovic joked (3:30 mark) during his post-match remarks. &#8220;I&#8217;ll play you. This jacket for that jacket, we play tennis. No golf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">McIlroy, 37, won his second straight Masters title in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Djokovic, meanwhile, is attempting to win his eighth Wimbledon title this month (and first since 2022). The 39-year-old has claimed a record 24 grand slam titles during his historic career, though none since 2023 as players like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have overtaken the men&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He&#8217;ll face No. 25 seed Arthur Rinderknech in the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic noticed 2026 Masters champion Rory McIlroy in the crowd wearing his Green Jacket during his second-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-774348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}