{"id":544860,"date":"2026-04-22T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544860\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:19","slug":"tennis-live-madrid-open-saga-gets-worse-as-player-shares-djokovic-texts-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544860\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis LIVE: Madrid Open saga gets worse as player shares Djokovic texts | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iva Jovic has shared the messages of encouragement she has received from Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">\u201cHe\u2019s texting me after matches, like analysis, or there will be the WTA or a tournament making a clip of a point that I played well, and he will be like, \u2018I love what you did in this point, you should try to do that more,\u201d she said on the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OfCVrnh4XC8?si=7TtSitNkUnVp_6FX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Served with Andy Roddick<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr before, specifically, I\u2019ve played one opponent, \u2018You\u2019ve got to make sure you try to do this, with this one.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like your average, \u2018you\u2019ve got this\u2019, it\u2019s unbelievably specific and detailed to the point where it\u2019s obvious that he\u2019s watched many of my matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know where he finds the time in his day, but he makes an effort with the young players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iva Jovic has shared the messages of encouragement she has received from Novak Djokovic. \u201cHe\u2019s texting me after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[22052,7307,12701,870,811,2068,40616,6766,171169,101,118,56,54,55,11572],"class_list":{"0":"post-544860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-amanda-anisimova","9":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","10":"tag-atp-tour","11":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","12":"tag-jannik-sinner","13":"tag-madrid","14":"tag-madrid-open","15":"tag-novak-djokovic","16":"tag-player-withdrawals","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tennis","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom","22":"tag-wta-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544860","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=544860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}