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!text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic shake hands at Wimbledon                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic has been told to curb his on-court behaviour ahead of his Wimbledon semi-final with Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old overcame a calf problem and a much more youthful Felix Auger-Aliassime to win an epic quarter-final <span>7-6 (12-10) 3-6 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (10-4) in<\/span> five hours and 15 minutes<span>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian showed remarkable steeliness and endurance to oust the 25-year-old on Centre Court, to set up a mouth-watering clash with world No 1 Sinner on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran will need every second of that time to recover for that encounter but ahead of their 12th meeting, tennis content creator Gill Gross believes Djokovic needs to cut one element out of his game.<\/p>\n<p>At various moments in the match, the 24-time major winner threw his arms in the air to bemoan the fact that Auger-Aliassime repeatedly hit the lines with his serves and in rallies.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>More Novak Djokovic News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/wimbledon-called-out-shambolic-decision-making-novak-djokovic-complaints-deaf-ears\">Novak Djokovic\u2019s Wimbledon complaints spark call for policy change after \u2018shambolic\u2019 incident<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/novak-djokovic-wimbledon-hopes-dismissed-jannik-sinner\">Novak Djokovic told he cannot beat Jannik Sinner by former British No 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commentator Gross feels that the third seed was able to feed of this \u201cfrustration\u201d and that this was a bad move mentally for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\">Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Djokovic beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\">Sinner<\/a> in five sets at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/australian-open\">Australian Open<\/a> earlier this year, the 24-year-old did win their previous five matches, including at last year\u2019s Wimbledon.\u00a0And before they lock horns, Gross suggested he would do well to not repeat this next time out.<\/p>\n<p>He said on his <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e2-4imgcPeg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>, \u201cSmall critique for Novak. He was showing so much frustration whenever Felix hit lines in the fourth set and early in the fifth. I just think you are telling your opponent that you are feeling the pressure of their quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good move mentally for Novak, especially against a guy like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/felix-auger-aliassime\">Felix<\/a>, who at that point of time really needed a confidence booster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is one thing if I shank it and it hits the line. At that point, I know I got lucky, everybody knows I got lucky, but if Felix is painting the service line on an ace up the T, that\u2019s not luck, that\u2019s skill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when Novak is like, \u2018Oh my god, I can\u2019t believe this is happening\u2019, I am just loving that if I am Felix. And I thought that was a mistake for Djokovic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, Gross added that he loved how Djokovic used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wimbledon\">Wimbledon<\/a> crowd to his advantage to give him \u201cextra energy\u201d in the fifth set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/novak-djokovic-telling-comment-wimbledon-rule-felix-auger-aliassime-win\">Novak Djokovic suggests he wants Wimbledon rule change after Felix Auger-Aliassime epic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic told to stop making \u2018mistake\u2019 before Jannik Sinner Wimbledon semi-final Richie Mills 08 Jul 2026 5:23 PM Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic shake hands at Wimbledon Novak Djokovic has been told to curb his on-court behaviour ahead of his Wimbledon semi-final with Jannik Sinner. 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