Then the Australian TV tennis commentator Tony Jones recorded a few sentences of on screen banter in front of a group of Djokovic’s Serbian flag-waving supporters. Djokovic is a national treasure to the Serbian people and they support their hero with a passion that, to the uneducated viewer, far outweighs the importance of a game of tennis.
France captain Antoine Dupont said Toulouse's thrashing of Leicester in the Champions Cup was the perfect warm-up for the Six Nations.
France face their trickier biennial Six Nations itinerary in oddly numbered years, with England in Twickenham and Ireland in the Aviva Stadium. Of their six titles since the expansion to the Six Nations, France have won only one championship in odd years.
Dupont is one of 13 Toulouse players included in Fabien Galthie’s 42-man France squad for the Six Nations, which begin on Dec 31. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Fabien Galthié has named a squad featuring a star half-back pairing for the 2025 Guinness Men's Six Nations Rugby, as Antoine Dupont and Romain Ntamack return.
Following the Six Nations squad announcements and with the action closing in fast, our focus turns to those players set to miss part or in some cases all of the Championship.
Influential centre Sione Tuipulotu is ruled out of the Six Nations because of the pectoral injury he picked up in training.
Scotland have two home games to start the Six Nations, a relatively clean bill of health, plus class, nous and physicality. Do they dare to dream?
Next up in our set of previews ahead of the Six Nations we examine the prospects of last fifth-placed finishers, Gonzalo Quesada's Italy.
The final auditions for the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia will take place over the coming weeks.
Steve Borthwick's squad are preparing for a seismic championship opener against title-holders Ireland in Dublin on February 1 without the benefit of momentum.
Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou have both been included in France’s matchday squad to face Wales in the first game of the Six Nations tournament next week.