Roddick chalked up the double faults to aggression and professed to lack much regret after a heady tournament following a downcast summer.

Roddick exited hastily, and the two seemed to have reached some sort of detente afterward but wouldn’t elaborate. In one vein, Roddick said, “I figure if you’re going to joke and imitate other people and do the whole deal, then you should take it. Listen, if someone makes fun of me. I’m most likely going to laugh.”

And in the apology vein, Djokovic cited “a clear misunderstanding” and said, “If I exaggerated on the court today and I made a mistake saying that in front of 20,000 people, you know, in his city and his favourite tournament, OK, I do apologise.”