Novak Djokovic of Serbia speaks to the crowd post his win.
Novak Djokovic believes male tennis players deserve higher pay than women – but insisted he still has enormous respect for female athletes because they have to deal with “hormones”.
The world No 1 tennis player waded into the row sparked by Indian Wells Tennis Garden CEO Raymond Moore on 20 March.
Moore, who later admitted his comments were “in extremely poor taste”, said if he was a female tennis player he would “go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born because they have carried this sport.