IMHO. However, there should have been an announcement before all of this started, when it was learned from his Instagram account that he took a picture, then he said that he fully intended to take the 20 plus hour flight to Australia to play in the 2022 AO Open. The officials should have stopped him at that point, and this whole thing should have been gone over and hashed things out with Djokovic. IF Nole had won his appeal to not be deported, this would have sent a horrible message to non-vaxxers. The people who actually live in Oz have every right to ask their government to protect them and they DID. I know he's probably the best male tennis player ever, but WHY should he get special treatment and not be vaxed like others who live there are?
While there is blame to go around, MOST of the blame for him not playing in the 2022 AO Open lies at Nole's feet. He's anti-vax which is his right, but if you are not vaxed and try to enter Oz Land, you cannot come into the country unless you have an underlying medical problem where being vaccinated could do you a lot of harm physically. He tried to get around that with the anti-body explanation, stating that he had covid, but that was fish as well because that time frame changed per Spiegel online who did a deep dive into his PCR test date completion. There was fishy paperwork, and worst of all Nole was traveling and attending events with children and others not wearing a mask, and he did an interview as well, although he did socially distance and mask up, but it's still was irresponsible for him to travel with covid if he allegedly really did have it during the time he said he knew he had it (Serbia, his home country doesn't allow people in there who haven't been FULLY vaccinated, and that's a WHOLE other can of worms for him since that's his country of birth, although he lives in Monte Carlo as to avoid paying taxes). He also went to Spain, and there were several other things surrounding this whole thing on his end that didn't add up or make sense. I guess he can try to win #21 in France at the FO, because their rules are lax unless they change their mind about anti-vaccinated Nole coming into France, but if Rafa Nadal's foot holds up he'll have something to say about Nole winning 2 FO titles in consecutive years because Rafa himself is tied with Nole--having won 20 singles grand slam titles and he's gunning for #21 on HIS best surface, and to top it off Nole could lose his #1 ranking if either #2 Daniil Medvedev of Russia or #3 Sasha Zverev of Germany hoist the championship cup 7 rounds from Tuesday.
The US Open will be a different story if he can't make it happen at the FO unless the USTA in NY does an El Foldo and is bullied by the GQP US Taliban Party in this country who are mostly anti-vax, shit holes who'll probably be saying that he should be allowed to play in the 2022 US Open in NY.
I'm so glad this is over ..... for now.
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