To reach the third round of the Australian Open and continue his pursuit of a 10th Australian Open Major title, Djokovic needed to dig deep against French qualifier Enzo Couacaud. Nevertheless, he prevailed 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-0.
During the match, the Serb demanded that a loudmouth tennis fan be ejected from the Rod Laver Arena after receiving constant heckles. He took matters into his own hands, telling the umpire that the spectator was attempting to get inside his head during the tie-break.
In light of this, Andy Roddick took to Twitter to laud Djokovic, stating that the Serb handled the situation very calmly.
“This is how I’m going to look like now in the media, like a bad guy” - Novak Djokovic on demanding the drunk fan be removed
In the post-match press conference, Novak Djokovic stated that the drunk fan was muttering disrespectful things at him from the beginning, which he tolerated patiently for nearly an hour and a half before finally approaching the chair umpire.
The 21-time Grand Slam champion, however, hoped that the chair umpire would have treated the situation more seriously because the whole thing would make him look like the “bad guy” who kicked out a fan.
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