{"id":469393,"date":"2026-03-11T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:52:14","slug":"novak-djokovic-interrupts-interviewer-to-call-out-headline-on-him-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469393\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic interrupts interviewer to call out headline on him | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic interrupted his interviewer to playfully complain about an on-screen caption about him following his Indian Wells victory. The Serbian came from one set down to beat Kamil Majchrzak 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 in the second round on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He is in third-round action later today (Monday) when he takes on American Aleksandar Kovacevic. The match is due to start at around 6pm GMT on Court number one.<\/p>\n<p>Following his win over Majchrzak, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Novak Djokovic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/novak-djokovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Djokovic<\/a> went into the studio of the Tennis Channel to reflect on the match and look towards the next round.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how he was doing, Djokovic said: &#8220;Great, great, it feels great to be on set with you, it means that I won a match here. I always keep that in mind, if I want to do well in tournaments, I get to do more interviews in the Tennis Channel sets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interview then continued, but something caught Djokovic\u2019s eye. Having a double-take at the caption on the screen, the 24-time Grand Slam champion interrupted the interviewer and said with a smile: &#8220;The second-oldest man to reach Indian Wells third round, that\u2019s a really nice description. Thank you, Tennis Channel!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interviewer then says: &#8220;It&#8217;s supposed to be a compliment!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds, with Djokovic laughing: &#8220;Maybe we can say second-wisest man, second-most experienced man, give the guy something.!<\/p>\n<p>Later, a new caption appears, with the interviewer saying: &#8220;Much better, thank you, guys, most distinguished man to reach this stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic then says: &#8220;Most distinguished man, wow, that\u2019s a very sophisticated word there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old is a five-time champion at Indian Wells and will be looking to secure a sixth title this week. His last victory of the tournament came back in 2016, with him losing to Botic van de Zandschulp in the second round last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic interrupted his interviewer to playfully complain about an on-screen caption about him following his Indian Wells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[87467,12701,30732,6766,101,118,12700,167992,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aleksandar-kovacevic","tag-atp-tour","tag-indian-wells","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section","tag-tennis-channel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}