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With gamers beginning to arrive in Sydney for the lads\u2019s season-opening ATP Cup, there was nonetheless no readability on Monday whether or not top-ranked Novak Djokovic can be collaborating within the group event or within the Australian Open that follows.<\/p>\n
There was intense hypothesis over Djokovic\u2019s participation on the Australian Open, which begins on January 17, with the 34-year-old, who’s against vaccinations, repeatedly declining to say if he has been innoculated towards Covid-19<\/span>. The speed of vaccination within the high 100 in males\u2019s tennis is 95%, in line with ATP Tour information.<\/p>\n With the organisers of the Grand Slam confirming that every one gamers and members at Melbourne Park have to be vaccinated or have a medical exemption granted by an unbiased panel of specialists, Djokovic has stored everybody guessing.<\/p>\n If the Serbian doesn’t flip up, world No 2 Daniil Medvedev can be the highest draw on the ATP Cup, and he has already arrived in Sydney to assist Russia defend its title.<\/p>\n Djokovic, 34, has received a report 9 Australian Open titles, together with the final three, and the probabilities of him enjoying Down Below improved when he was named in Serbia\u2019s group for the ATP Cup.<\/p>\n However on Saturday, a report in Serbian each day Blic stated Djokovic wouldn’t be travelling to Sydney for the event, including to doubts over whether or not he’ll play at Melbourne Park from January 17.<\/p>\n His father Srdjan informed a Serbian tv channel final month that Djokovic would most likely pull out of the main, saying Tennis Australia\u2019s stance on necessary vaccination was tantamount to \u201cblackmail\u201d.<\/p>\n Djokovic\u2019s pullout will, nonetheless, not impression Serbia\u2019s participation within the event which has a $10 million prize purse, with the groups locked in on December 7 primarily based on participant entries.<\/p>\n Owing to Djokovic\u2019s present world rating, Serbia obtained high billing for the 16-team ATP Cup from January 1-9 and had been put in Group A together with Norway, Chile and Spain when the draw was held earlier this month.<\/p>\n With Serbia, who received the inaugural ATP Cup in 2020, scheduled to open its marketing campaign on Saturday, time is working out for Djokovic to play in Sydney after which in Melbourne, the place he would have an opportunity to interrupt a three-way tie for 20 main titles, at the moment shared with Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) With gamers beginning to arrive in Sydney for the lads\u2019s season-opening ATP Cup, there was nonetheless no readability on Monday whether or not top-ranked Novak Djokovic can be collaborating within the group event or within the Australian Open that follows. There was intense hypothesis over Djokovic\u2019s participation on the Australian Open, which begins on January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[46],"tags":[33176,3192,59,13640,39687,3588,3196,45131],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2021\/11\/Djokovic-2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75406,"url":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/after-atp-cup-withdrawal-doubts-over-djokovics-presence-at-australia-open\/","url_meta":{"origin":75977,"position":0},"title":"After ATP Cup withdrawal, doubts over Djokovic\u2019s presence at Australia Open","date":"December 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Novak Djokovic\u2019s journey to Australia stays unsure after he reportedly pulled out of the ATP Cup. 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