Although Novak Djokovic nonetheless faces the prospect of deportation from Australia, his father is bolstering public opinion at dwelling in Serbia that the case “is closed.”
“The entire scenario concerning Novak Djokovic is closed by the decision of the Australian court docket,” Srdjan Djokovic informed Bosnian Serb TV station RTRS on Tuesday.
Serbs have rallied round their sports activities idol, who hopes to defend his title on the Australian Open this month � if he can handle to remain within the nation.
The highest-ranked Djokovic skilled at Melbourne Park, the place the event is held, inside hours of profitable a authorized battle that allowed him to remain for now. However he faces the potential of deportation as a result of he’s not vaccinated towards COVID-19.
That hasn’t stopped Srdjan Djokovic from making his case.
“An Australian court docket and an impartial choose, after seven hours of inspecting all of the information, decided that there aren’t any ambiguities and that Novak is free to enter Australia and do his job,” he stated.
At situation is whether or not the nine-time Australian Open champion has a legitimate exemption to guidelines requiring vaccination to enter Australia since he not too long ago recovered from COVID-19. A choose dominated Monday he might keep, however the immigration minister might nonetheless ship him dwelling.
The latest query within the Djokovic saga is over an immigration kind on which he stated he had not traveled within the 14 days earlier than his flight to Australia.
But he was filmed taking part in tennis on the street in entrance of his residence within the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on December 25, and later coaching in Spain all throughout the 14-day window.
Questions additionally stay about Djokovic’s current optimistic coronavirus take a look at. He had a PCR take a look at on December 16 and obtained his optimistic outcome that night time.
Pictures and movies since then have proven a maskless Djokovic attending public occasions, together with a junior tennis prize ceremony in Belgrade after his optimistic take a look at. Serbia’s COVID-19 protocols ought to have required him to isolate for 11 days.
It stays unclear if Serbia’s authorities will punish Djokovic for the obvious breach of necessary self-isolation guidelines. The Balkan nation faces its greatest coronavirus surge for the reason that begin of the pandemic.
The drama has polarized opinions and elicited sturdy assist for the 20-time Grand Slam winner in his native Serbia.
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