This was after Djokovic had already turned his again and conceded a degree early within the second set of the Serb’s 6-3, 6-4 win in Italian Open on Tuesday.

There have been additionally different situations of unhealthy sportsmanship from Norrie, Djokovic mentioned after reaching the Italian Open quarterfinals for the seventeenth straight yr.

“I did watch the replay when he hit me. Maybe you could say he didn’t hit me deliberately,” Djokovic was quoted as saying by AP when requested about his offended glare towards Norrie after the incident.

“It was not a lot perhaps about that. … From the very starting, he was doing all of the issues that have been allowed. He’s allowed to take a medical timeout. He’s allowed to hit a participant. He’s allowed to say ‘Come on’ within the face roughly each single level from mainly first sport.

“Those are the things that we players know in the locker room it’s not fair play, it’s not how we treat each other,” Djokovic mentioned earlier than including, “He brought the fire, and I responded to that. I’m not going to allow someone behaving like this just bending my head. I’m going to respond to that.”