Citing her personal expertise from the 2013 Australian Open semi-final the place she needed to take a nine-minute timeout as a result of a panic assault she was going by, Azarenka stated that the blowback afterwards was the worst factor she went by in her profession.

“It was one of the worst things I have ever gone through in my professional career, the way I was treated after that moment, the way I had to explain myself until 10.30pm at night because people didn’t want to believe me,” she informed reporters.

“There is sometimes, like, I don’t know, incredible desire for a villain and a hero story that has to be written,” stated Azarenka. But we’re not villains, we’re not heroes, we’re common human beings that undergo so many, many issues,” stated Azarenka, who’s now again within the Australian Open semi-final since 2013.

Djokovic has taken medical timeouts in his second-round match against Enzo Couacaud and in opposition to Grigor Dimitrov in his third spherical win.

He later spoke to the Serbian media and reportedly stated, “I leave the doubt to those people – let them doubt.” He then added, “Only my injuries are questioned. When some other players are injured, then they are the victims, but when it is me, I am faking it.”

Amid the dialogue on the extent of Djokovic’s accidents and the way he’s portrayed as a ‘villain’, American World No 9 Taylor Fritz stated that almost all tennis gamers are continuously injured and it’s a matter of the diploma of damage that they carry with them.

“I don’t think people fake injuries, I do think sometimes players stretch the severity of the injury because it depressurises them and helps them play better,” he added.