Novak Djokovic news: Senior BBC figures fear the Serb’s interview was an anti-vax PR stunt

Some senior figures at the BBC have claimed that Novak Djokovic’s interview with Amol Rajan gave the anti-vax movement a big platform and are worried they’ll come to regret airing the revealing conversation with the tennis player last week.

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The world No 1 spoke about how he’d refuse to take part in future Grand Slams and was quite happy to not win anymore in his lifetime if that meant he had to get the vaccine.

But there is argument within the Beeb over how the interview was carried out by Rajan as some think he didn’t push the 34-year-old hard enough on his views and appeared to be more like a close friend than a journalist.

There is also an ongoing dispute about how the interview originated as it’s said to have been organised with PR firm Freuds which brings into question it’s legitimacy of being an honest, intimate chat which is how it came across on screen.

Couldn’t have asked for a better reception back on court #DDFTennis #NoleFam

: Karim Sahib pic.twitter.com/fEhcyYBCfD

— Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) February 21, 2022

Many viewers weren’t happy with the interview either as they thought he was given too much air time and coverage, to which the broadcasters replied: “It was of genuine significance and was of interest to our audience.”

Djokovic denied being part of the anti-vax movement but also remained strong in his view that he didn’t want to have the Covid-19 vaccine because he believes in the rights of the individual and claims he doesn’t know what it’ll do to his body and