{"id":129749,"date":"2025-09-03T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129749\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:10:06","slug":"novak-djokovic-does-kpop-demon-hunters-dance-at-us-open-for-his-daughters-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129749\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic does &#8216;KPop Demon Hunters&#8217; dance at US Open for his daughter&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Novak Djokovic has celebrated beating Taylor Fritz in the U.S. Open quarterfinals with some dance moves to music from the hit movie \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d that were taught to him by his daughter, Tara<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/novak-djokovic-taylor-fritz-us-open-d57ba52c3dafa19525fba6392117cbe0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic celebrated beating Taylor Fritz<\/a> in the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Open<\/a> quarterfinals with some dance moves to music from the hit movie <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/box-office-kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-1646037b37d3018a0c827a3a674daf02\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;KPop Demon Hunters&#8221;<\/a> that were taught to him by his daughter, Tara, who turned 8 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After meeting Fritz at the net when the 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 win was over, Djokovic began his little jig in Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 24-time Grand Slam champion called the victory \u201ca big present for\u201d Tara, who is not at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Djokovic figures Tara will rate his performance when she watches it Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe are at home doing different choreographies, and this is one of them,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully I\u2019ll make her smile when she wakes up in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He explained during his on-court interview that the dance is based on \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-summer-smash-surprise-b1f1a0390c303fb46959f6cf6e77b5ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Sony Pictures\/Netflix movie<\/a> that has topped the streamer\u2019s global rankings. Fans have flooded the internet with art, covers, cosplay and choreography connected to film, which follows the fictional K-pop girl group HUNTR\/X as they fight demons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d soundtrack debuted at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Soundtracks chart and No. 8 on the all-genre Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">More AP tennis: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic has celebrated beating Taylor Fritz in the U.S. Open quarterfinals with some dance moves to music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[82301,966,88,99,428,31291],"class_list":["post-129749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-82301","tag-article","tag-entertainment","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-u-s-open-tennis-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}