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Post by Admin on Jan 18, 2022 11:59:35 GMT
Tennis stars and Australian citizens weigh in on Djokovic visa row 44,082 views • Jan 16, 2022 • Australian citizens and tennis stars Rafa Nadal and Emma Raducanu have been giving their verdict on the Novak Djokovic visa row.
It comes after the world's top tennis player had his visa to play in Australia revoked for a second time.
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Post by Admin on Jan 18, 2022 21:33:48 GMT
Naomi Osaka wasn't too keen to discuss Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open. Defending women's champion Osaka was one such player to be asked about Djokovic, and she summed up the general feeling pretty well. “Is my opinion going to help anything?” Osaka replied. When pressed by the reporter she said: “Yeah, I’ll kind of pass on that. Thanks though.” Aussie player Aleksandar Vukic also offered “no comment”, while French veteran Gaël Monfils said he was simply trying to think about the tournament. One player who was more forthcoming about the Djokovic situation was Rafa Nadal, who now has the chance to break the men's all-time record if he can win a 21st major. “Almost one week ago when he won in the first instance, the case, he was able to get back his visa and practising. I said the justice have spoke,” Nadal told reporters. “If the justice says his visa is valid and he’s able to play here, the justice has spoken, so that’s the fairest thing, that he deserve to play here. "Yesterday the justice said another thing. I will never be against what the justice says. “Another thing is what I believe personally and what I believe is the ideal situation personally, no? The ideal situation in the world of sport, that the best players are on court and playing the most important events without a doubt. That’s better for the sport without a doubt.
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2022 1:30:41 GMT
The Australian Tennis Federation warned last November that the viability of the Australian Open depended on the players who had not been vaccinated could enter the country to compete in the tournament, according to a letter released this Saturday by local means. In the letter written by the head of Tennis Australia, Craig Tiley, to the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (ATAGI) – in which not named Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic– it was requested that the players with a recent covid-19 infection or the single dose of the vaccine could be exempt of the immigration rules that require that people who arrive in the country be fully vaccinated. “The treatment of players who fall into one of these categories is critical to the viability of the Australian Open“Tiley wrote, according to the November 10 text accessed by the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. The letter has been published amid the controversy surrounding the cancellation of Djokovic’s visa to enter Australia, that he was not able to adequately justify the reason why I was not vaccinated, according to authorities. The world’s number one, found isolated in a hotel from the Australian city waiting for you a court decides This Monday about his deportation, he arrived in the oceanic country on Wednesday night with a medical exemption that allowed him defend your title at the Australian Open without being vaccinated. The dispute over the medical exemptions granted by Tennis Australia and the regional government of Victoria, where the tournament is held, have led the Executive of Canberra to investigate similar permissions awarded to other people participating in the tournament in Melbourne, which will take place between January 17 and 30. As was made public this Friday, the Australian authorities han called off for the same reasons as Djokovic the visa for Czech tennis player Renata Vorácová, who was already in the country and had played a preparation match prior to the Australian Open.
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Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2022 14:52:10 GMT
Doubts over timing of Novak Djokovic's Covid test - BBC News 15,814 views • Jan 28, 2022 • BBC research has cast doubt on the timing of the positive Covid test Novak Djokovic used to enter Australia to try to compete in the Australian Open.
Documents submitted by his lawyers to federal court in Australia included two Covid (PCR) test certificates, one with a positive result on 16 December and one with a negative result on 22 December.
However, the serial number on his positive test appears out of sequence with a sample of tests from Serbia over the same period gathered by the BBC.
It is also higher than for his second (negative) test result from six days later.
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2022 11:55:00 GMT
Novak Djokovic breaks silence over Covid vaccine refusal - BBC News 608,281 views • Feb 15, 2022 • Tennis star Novak Djokovic has said he would rather miss out on future trophies than be forced to get a Covid vaccine.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, he said he should not be associated with the anti-vax movement, but supported an individual's right to choose.
The Serbian was asked if he would sacrifice taking part in competitions such as Wimbledon and the French Open over his stance on the vaccine.
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