Novak Djokovic Reflects on Beating Jannik Sinner at the Australian Open

Uh... Oh

my god, what should... where should... I feel...

it feels uh, surreal to be honest. Uh... playing

almost uh, you know, it was over four hours,

almost 2:00 a.m. Reminiscing in 2012 when I

played Rafa in the finals, that was... six hours

almost, but uh... the level of intensity and

uh... I guess the quality of tennis uh, was...

extremely high and uh, I knew that that was

the only way for me to have a chance to win

tonight against him. Um, you know, he won last

five matches against me. He had... he had my

uh... he had my uh, mobile number... so I had

to change my number for tonight. Uh... No, jokes

aside... jokes aside, you know, I... I told

him at the net uh... thanks for... for allowing

me at least one, you know?

In the last couple of years. Uh, I have tremendous

respect for him. Incredible player. I mean,

he pushes you to the very limit, which... which

is what he did tonight to me. So he deserves

a great round of applause... obviously for his

performance. Some legends stayed up

to 2:00 a.m. Margaret Court, thank you so much

for being here tonight. Uh... I cannot thank

enough... for the support to all the people.

I mean, you guys have been incredible tonight.

Honestly, incredible. I

love... I love our passionate relationship.

Every year is something different, you know?

And tonight it has been uh... one of the, if

not the... best night, atmosphere-wise, support-wise

I ever had in Australia. For sure. Thank you

from bottom of my heart. Thank you.