India, June 29 -- One of the more prominent changes at Wimbledon (given how the tournament swears by tradition) of late is getting the star players mic'd up for the initial minutes of their first practice hit on Centre Court.

That's how we get to know that Novak Djokovic had no intention of giving the most recent Grand Slam men's final a view until his wife and son compelled him to abandon his if-I-ain't-playing-I-ain't-watching theory. That's how we also get to know that Jannik Sinner, the French Open runner-up, has, sort of, moved on and now feels it was a "huge honour" being part of a match that "people will remember".

In those two mic'd up videos covering the warm-up session of Djokovic-Carlos Alcaraz and Sinner-Daniil Medvedev, las...