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Tennis world No. 1 Novak Djokovic “will probably not participate” in the Australian Open Due to the compulsory vaccination established by the tournament, declared this Sunday the father of the Serbian player, lamenting the “blackmail” of the organization.
“Sure you would like to go, because he is an athlete and because there are many compatriots, the diaspora, who they would be glad to see Novak“stated Djokovic’s father, Srdjan Djokovic, to the Serbian television channel Prva TV.
“But I don’t know if that will happenProbably not under those conditions, with this blackmail, done that way, “he added.
Nine times champion in Melbourne, the last time in February, Djokovic refuses to reveal whether or not he has been vaccinated against covid-19.
The boss of the first tournament of the Grand Slam of the season (June 17-30), Craig Tiley, declared on Sunday that the Serbian “must be vaccinated to play.”
Srdjan Djokovic defended the “exclusive and personal right“of his son to be vaccinated or not, stating that he himself does not know if he has.
What’s more criticized the conditions eventual participation in the tournament, with a quarantine in a room of hotel for two weeks, as it happened this year: “Excellent idea, congratulations, but let them play themselves.”
Djokovic, which in Melbourne would seek its 21st Grand Slam record, he tested positive in June 2020, during a solidarity tournament he organized in the Balkans. Two months earlier, he had been against mandatory vaccination.
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