Serbian king Novak Djokovic recently broke into the top 8 of the 2025 Australian Open men's singles, and he refused to visit the sidelines after the match because he was dissatisfied with the host of the official Australian Open broadcaster "Channel 9" T. Jones mocking Serbian fans and himself, and left after a brief conversation. T. Jones has now publicly apologized for this.

Serbian king Novak Djokovic

"Channel 9" recently broadcast a picture of Serbian fans cheering enthusiastically, but T. Jones taunted, "Novak, he is overrated." Novak is out of breath, Novak, get him out. I'm glad they couldn't hear me. ”

Djokovic also politely declined to visit the sidelines after the game the day before yesterday, and called out the sports reporter of Channel 9 in the post-match press conference to mock Serbian fans and make insulting and offensive remarks about him.

And T. Jones apologized in an interview on Monday local time, "I'm disappointed that things will turn out like this, because these comments were made last Friday, and I think it was a joke and humor, which is what I have been doing." ”

T. Jones said that he received an official notice from the Australian Open last Saturday that the Djokovic camp was unhappy with the remarks, "I immediately contacted the Novak camp and apologized to them 48 hours ago for any disrespect that Novak thought I had caused." ”

T. Jones believes that the statement that Djokovic was "kicked out" at the time crossed the line, and he admitted that it could be interpreted as the 2022 Australian Open, when Djokovic was deported by the Australian authorities due to a vaccination controversy.

"It Novak off, and I totally understand that." T. Jones said, "This is indeed an unfortunate situation, a personal pain for Novak, and a personal pain for me. Now the priority is to focus on tennis. ”

The Australian Open official also issued a statement, "Novak confirmed that the other party has publicly apologized as requested, and now he has to move forward and focus on his next match." Djokovic will meet Spain's third seed Alcaraz in the Australian Open men's singles quarterfinals today, and only a win will he need to win to continue to challenge for 25 Grand Slam titles and 11th Australian Open titles.