Djokovic, Williams Dance At Champions Dinner

From the baseline to the bass line. From Centre Court to Studio 54 (well, actually London's Guildhall).

It's sometimes said that Novak Djokovic, now a winner of three Wimbledon singles titles and nine Grand Slams in all, is the best mover in tennis. And his performances across London over the past couple of days would suggest that's as true off Centre Court as on it.

At Sunday evening's Champions' Dinner, he and the ladies' winner, Serena Williams, danced to "Night Fever" by The Bee Gees, with a performance so slick it invited accusations that it had been choreographed backstage.

Not so, said the king of Centre Court and disco, though he was happy to have revived a tradition that was thought to have been abandoned in the 1970s like tight shorts on male players: The two singles champions always used to have the first dance together.

If this Serbian and Californian pair win again next summer, the All England Club might have to revert to calling its end-of-fortnight party a ball.

Djokovic would have preferred a waltz, but Williams, who has recently incorporated dance movements into her fitness regime, wanted something a little livelier.

"It was my idea to dance. I was very pleased -- Serena is a good dancer," said Djokovic, who had cleared the disco revival with Philip Brook, the chairman of the All England Club.