He has turned down requests for extensive off-court interviews.
Television will have won, and there will be on-court interviews at each changeover.
And they certainly wouldn't have got the out-of-court interviews in which various parties shared their suppositions and hunches.
Though she said she still spoke plenty of English in Paris and ran regularly into American students on the street, her French has improved significantly, and her on-court interviews in French grew increasingly confident and expansive during the tournament.
No wonder the Serb writes Chinese characters on the camera lens after his wins and begins his on-court interviews with the latest words he has learned in Mandarin: he has won 38 of the last 39 matches he has played in China and won all 10 of the finals he has reached in this country.
The dichotomy in the modern women's game is that the more feminine become the fashions, and the more frothy the off-court interviews that major on shopping and clothes, so the more unbendingly powerful, not to say brittle, becomes the tennis.
Li has famously teased her husband, Jiang Shan, in on-court interviews over the years at Melbourne Park, and he did not escape this time as she thanked him by saying: "You are a nice guy, and also so lucky".
Smashed racquets, audible obscenities, conversations with the crowd, "cocky" on-court interviews, all among a blizzard of winners and aces - it has been impossible to take your eyes off him at Melbourne Park.
Already a popular figure at Melbourne Park thanks to her previous success - and entertaining on-court interviews - Li was urged on by a large contingent of Chinese supporters on Rod Laver Arena.
The league is also offering a bunch of updates and new channels to its GameTime mobile app to bring fans 90-plus hours of streaming video, including everything from highlights to off-the-court interviews, and shenanigans from this year's ballers.
A shriek of both shock and joy leaped from the stadium, and Nishikori, in an on-court interview immediately after, assured the interviewer that this would be big in Japan.
