Novak Djokovic had refused to give the post-match interview with the broadcasters after his Round of 16 victory over Jiri Lehecka in the Australian Open after accusing a presenter with the official broadcaster of making a “mockery of Serbian fans” and also for “insulting” him.

Novak Djokovic charged into the Australian Open quarter-finals and booked a mouth-watering encounter with Carlos Alcaraz before the Serb shifted the focus by snubbing the Grand Slam's official broadcaster and slamming them for mocking him and his fans.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- It's time for the eighth installment of the riveting, intergenerational rivalry between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz. This one, though, will be the first at the Australian Open — and the first in the quarterfinals of a tournament; each of the others came in either a semifinal or final.