Tennis fans on social media hit out at the ITIA for what many considered an excessive ban, while players like Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Tennys Sandgren questioned the agency's priorities regarding "actual performance enhancers."

Rafael Nadal called his rival's 23 major titles "a number that just a few years back was impossible to think about," as Genie Bouchard hailed Djokovic as "the undisputed GOAT".

The American fell in the second round at the BNP Paribas Open.