VOr six years ago Novak Djokovic won a game in Melbourne in which he called himself a hundred unforced errors had done. These are mistakes without need or unforced mistakes that the opponent has no decisive influence on with his strokes.
Three-digit numbers are a rarity, and you have to be a damn good player if you want to win. A few days after this coup, Djokovic won his sixth title at the Australian Open, now there are nine, but it is becoming less likely that it will be enough for a tenth. According to a statement by the Serb, published on social networks, it looks even worse for him than before. The explanation sounds implausible, coiffed, bent into shape.
When did he know about the positive test?
Djokovic writes that he wants to correct the ongoing misinformation that is currently in circulation. Regarding the point of incorrect information on the entry form (he had not specified a stay abroad in the two weeks before his departure to Australia), he said that it was not he himself who made it, but a member of his team. That was a mistake, not a deliberate misleading. But whatever he wants to call it – that’s a clear case of unforced error.
But his statements about the timing and the events after his positive Corona test on December 16 seem far more questionable. He did it because he had attended a basketball game in Belgrade two days earlier, after which there were several positive cases. Although his rapid test was negative, he had a PCR test done out of sheer caution.
Before he knew the result, he had an appointment with children in Belgrade the next day, and before leaving, he did a quick test again, and that too was negative. The positive result of the PCR test was only received after this date.
The end of the story looks really adventurous. On December 18, despite the positive test, he met a journalist from the French sports newspaper “L’Equipe” in his tennis center for a long-term interview, of course with a distance and mask that he only removed for photos. Then he drove home and went into the prescribed isolation.
In retrospect, that was a mistake, writes Djokovic. It would have been correct to make a new appointment for the interview, but he didn’t want to let the journalist down. Hallelujah, you rarely see that in this business.
If the story didn’t sound so questionable, you’d have to laugh about it early the day after tomorrow. Djokovic is lucky that the French journalist did not get infected on the occasion, and of course the photographer too. This action alone, which contradicts everything that is indicated in times of the pandemic, is easily enough for a hundred unforced errors through.
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