American Ben Shelton has criticised "negative" and "disrespectful" on-court interviews with players at the Australian Open. Shelton beat Italy's Lorenzo Sonego 6-4 7-5 4-6 7-6 (7-4) on Wednesday to reach the semi-finals, after which the on-court interviewer suggested no-one would be cheering for the 22-year-old in his next match.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — American tennis player Ben Shelton criticized on Wednesday some of the questions and comments made by post-match TV interviewers at the Australian Open.

Tony Jones and a host of other Nine presenters have attempted to bring humour to the Aus Open but the tennis world clearly isn’t laughing. American tennis star Ben Shelton has slammed the standard of on-court post-match interviews at the Australian Open.

Jones shouted "Novak, he's over-rated, Novak's a has-been, Novak kick him out" towards Djokovic fans while live on air at the Australian Open on Friday. The Australian broadcaster has since apologised for his remarks but Shelton says that incident was not a one-off.