{"id":542867,"date":"2026-04-21T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:16:08","slug":"tennis-live-sinners-alcaraz-injury-claim-as-djokovic-eyes-new-sport-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542867\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis LIVE: Sinner&#8217;s Alcaraz injury claim as Djokovic eyes new sport | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has revealed that Indian star Virat Kohli is the reason for him now following cricket.<\/p>\n<p>On the red carpet before the Laureus World Sports Awards, he told Times Now: &#8220;Yes, Virat is a friend and someone I, of course, respect and admire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s actually, to be honest, the reason why I started following cricket. I hadn&#8217;t followed it before, but through him, I started following it more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We keep in touch, and hopefully, when I come, I don&#8217;t want to say if, but when I come to India, hopefully, he can join me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could do a little bit of tennis and a little bit of cricket, have fun, and just spread positive, good vibes while celebrating sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic has revealed that Indian star Virat Kohli is the reason for him now following cricket. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[870,49557,6962,811,2068,40616,6766,101,118,872,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz-injury","10":"tag-emma-raducanu","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-madrid","13":"tag-madrid-open","14":"tag-novak-djokovic","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-tennis-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542867","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=542867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}