"Greatest male tennis player of all time. Don't": Andy Roddick hesistant to criticise Novak Djokovic swearing incident at Monte-Carlo for specific reason

Andy Roddick revealed that he's 'so scared' of facing the wrath of Novak Djokovic's fans. The American former world No. 1 commented on Nole's incident of yelling "shut the f*** up" at a spectator during the semifinals of the Monte-Carlo Masters. Djokovic couldn't overcome Ruud, who defeated him 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, and the Serbian wasn't very satisfied.

According to Roddick, the 24-times Grand Slam winner deserved to receive a warning, and he recalled Holger Rune receiving a warning for making a 'bla. Blac' gesture while being booed for a time violation: “If [Holger] Rune gets in trouble for making balloon animals with his hands, then it gets a warning. Then if someone looks at the crowd and in two different languages in the same sentence, says, shut the f*** up. I feel like that should warrant a warning,” Roddick said.

When his co-host on the podcast Served with Andy Roddickk asked who cursed at the crowd, Roddick was afraid to report Nole and receive the wrath of his fans: "Greatest male tennis player of all time. Don't,” a nervous Roddick replied. However, the American still stood by his statement, explaining that Djokovic’s fans couldn't argue with the rules.

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“And so I'm literally like, I don't know what to tell a fan base if I said he should get a warning because he told the crowd loudly, clearly to shut the f*** up. They're like, I don't care if he cusses. I'm like, that's fine. But like, that's also the rule. Pecedent's been set for 50 years.

“Because you don't like the rule, he shouldn't have been punished? I don't understand. It's illogical. It's nuts. It's the fact that that was the thing that got it going this week. Oh, God, it's so annoying. Anyways, Novak is unbelievable. But I'm trying to cover it because I'm scared of them,” he concluded.

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