Djokovic's fellow Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka got involved in a feisty exchange with a Ukrainian journalist over her association with Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko."NEXT QUESTION, PLEASE"
He was cut off mid-question by a press conference moderator eager to shift the conversation towards forehands and backhands rather than bloody military conflicts.That interrogation followed Sabalenka's second-round match. Kostyuk said she had no respect for Sabalenka for not individually denouncing the role of Belarus in the war."You should ask them who would they want to win the war because if you ask this question, I'm not so sure these people will say that they want Ukraine to win.""I don't know why it's a difficult situation for her. She might be World No 1 after this tournament.
After stunning world No 2 Daniil Medvedev and obliged to perform a rare, mandatory press conference, the world No 172 blasted a questioner who wanted to know if the case was moving forward.
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