Watch: Novak Djokovic Wishes 'Happy Birthday' To Mom With A Song After Entering Australian Open Semi-final

 Watch: Novak Djokovic Wishes 'Happy Birthday To Mom With A Song After Entering Australian Open Semi-final

Novak Djokovic's mother Dijana gestures as he wishes her 'Happy Birthday'.

Novak Djokovic said he "sent a message" at the Australian Open thru manner of beating Andrey Rublev on Wednesday to make the semi-finals and element in the direction of a twenty-2d Grand Slam call. The Serb was withinside the zone to blitz past the Russian fifth seed 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 on Rod Laver Arena and set up a meeting with Tommy Paul for a place on Sunday's final. The unseeded American defeated countryman Ben Shelton 7-6 (8/6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in his zone final. Djokovic's quest for a record-extending 10th Australian Open call was some distance from easy at the start, plagued thru manner of a hamstring strain suffered at the direction to the call at Adelaide this month.

The 35-year-antique struggled physically withinside the early rounds but was dominant in some unspecified time in the future of his fourth-round demolition of Alex de Minaur and was ruthless yet again closer to Rublev.

". I've been in this example so typically in my existence and career," he introduced after reaching a 10th semi-final at Melbourne Park. Only Roger Federer (15) and Jack Crawford (11) had been there more often.

"I've in no manner out of place a semi-final withinside the Australian Open, hopefully so that you can stay the same."

After the match, Djokovic wanted his mother Dijana Djokovic on her birthday, which was on Tuesday, in a cute gesture.