{"id":437069,"date":"2023-06-01T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437069"},"modified":"2023-06-01T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:01:11","slug":"djokovic-says-he-stands-for-his-words-regarding-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-says-he-stands-for-his-words-regarding-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic says he &#8216;stands for his words&#8217; regarding Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was criticized after his previous match for comments about clashes in northern Kosovo between ethnic Serbs and NATO-led peacekeepers, but the 22-time major champion stayed away from political matters on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>When he won 7-6 (2), 6-0, 6-3 over Marton Fucsovics in the second round of the French Open Djokovic wrote on the lens of a TV camera \u2014 a custom at more and more tennis tournaments \u2014 and kept it simple, with an autograph and a smiley face.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite different from what happened after his win Monday, when Djokovic drew attention for writing in Serbian, \u201cKosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence,\u201d and then speaking out about the matter at a news conference with reporters from his home country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Serbian Novak Djokovic has defended writing \u201cKosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence\u201d on a camera following his first round win at the French Open.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aLg7sRbych\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/aLg7sRbych<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eVQMUuze96\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eVQMUuze96<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishTimes\/status\/1663909844489830409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n\u201cOf course I\u2019m aware that a lot of people would disagree, but it is what it is. It\u2019s something that I stand for. So that\u2019s all. Drama-free Grand Slam \u2014 I don\u2019t think it can happen for me,\u201d Djokovic said Wednesday. \u201cYou know, I guess that drives me, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was criticized after his previous match for comments about clashes in northern Kosovo between ethnic Serbs and NATO-led peacekeepers, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":435066,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,19055],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17855,6274],"acf":{"announce":"\"Drama-free Grand Slam \u2014 I don\u2019t think it can happen for me\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437069"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437069"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}