{"id":197458,"date":"2025-09-03T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197458\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:13:10","slug":"how-novak-djokovics-wife-reacted-to-his-us-open-dance-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197458\/","title":{"rendered":"How Novak Djokovic’s wife reacted to his US Open dance celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novak Djokovic\u2019s wife, Jelena, approved of his dance after he defeated American Taylor Fritz<\/a> on Tuesday in the U.S. Open quarterfinals, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n

During his post-match interview, Djokovic showed off his moves\u00a0to the 2025 song \u201cSoda Pop\u201d from the animated film \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d a performance he dedicated to his and Jelena\u2019s daughter, Tara, who turned 8 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwwwww My little soda pop!!!\u201d Jelena wrote on her Instagram Story, including a video of the Serbian star, 38, dancing into the U.S. Open semifinals.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go hahaha,\u201d she added in Croatian. <\/p>\n

Djokovic, a\u00a0four-time U.S. Open winner, explained afterward that his quarterfinal victory was a \u201cbig present\u201d for his daughter, who is a K-pop fan and taught him the dance moves.<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic\u2019s wife Jelena approved of his KPop dance after he defeated Taylor Fritz, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, in the U.S. Open quarterfinals on Tuesday, September 2, 2025. Instagram<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 20 minutes to midnight here, 2 September, it\u2019s my daughter\u2019s birthday, so this is a big present for her,\u201d Djokovic said in his\u00a0on-court interview\u00a0at Arthur Ashe Stadium. \u201cActually, the dance in the end\u2026 she\u2019s going to rate me tomorrow how the dance was because she told me how to dance. It\u2019s \u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019. \u2018Soda Pop\u2019 is the name of the song. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s a big thing globally for teenagers and kids, but I didn\u2019t know about it before my daughter told me about it a few months ago. We were at home doing different choreographies, and this is one of them, so hopefully I\u2019ll make her smile when she wakes up tomorrow morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic celebrates after defeating Taylor Fritz during their Men\u2019s Quarterfinal match at the US Open on Sept. 2, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic and wife Jelena in January 2025. Instagram\/Jelena Djokovic <\/p>\n

Djokovic continued his win streak against Fritz (11-0) with his quarterfinal victory, despite committing 40 unforced errors in the quarterfinal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought for my standards that I wasn\u2019t playing well,\u201d Djokovic said afterward. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel the ball as well as I did in the third round. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cTaylor is a kind of player who, if you allow him to play, he\u2019s going to try to dictate, be aggressive, stay close to the line. He\u2019s going to take his forehands and punish you. I was just trying to survive, stay in the rally, make him play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Djokovic will face World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz\u00a0in the semifinals Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic\u2019s wife, Jelena, approved of his dance after he defeated American Taylor Fritz on Tuesday in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[10929,9125,62,1486,1464,67,132,68,20886,2391],"class_list":{"0":"post-197458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-dance","9":"tag-novak-djokovic","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-entertainment","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-open-tennis","17":"tag-wags"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115141725751884759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}