The draw of the tournament matches took place on Thursday. The Australian government has still not said whether it intended to expel the Serbian player, not vaccinated and who has accumulated the irregularities in the procedure for obtaining his visa.
Le Monde
The drawing of the Tennis Australian Open meetings, which will begin Monday, January 17 in Melbourne, took place Thursday, January 13. The Serbian Novak Djokovic, the world’s number one and title, should be opposed to the first round at its compatriot Miomir Kecmanovic (78 e global player).
If he trained in recent days on the Rod Wash Arena, the Central Court of Melbourne Park, Novak Djokovic does not know yet if he can play. Not vaccinated and having accumulated irregularities in the procedure for obtaining its visa, it expects a decision of the Minister of Australian Immigration, which has a discretionary power to expel it.
At first repressed at the border and placed in the retention center, the holding of the title was released a few days later on a decision of a judge. But the Australian government has not excluded from expelled.
Thursday, the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, said no decision had yet been made concerning a possible cancellation of the visa and expulsion of the player. The position of the Minister of Immigration, Alex Hawke, who said he was thinking about a cancellation under his discretionary powers, “did not change,” added Mr. Morrison during a conference of press devoted to the sanitary situation in the country.
He recalled that the decision was in the hands of the minister, before refusing any other comment. He just said that “having a visa and perform the sanitary conditions to enter the territory are two different things”.
“Judgment error”
In recent days, embarrassing revelations have been weakening the defense of Novak Djokovic. Before embarking for Melbourne, the N O 1 world celebrated Christmas in Belgrade then made a hook by Marbella (Spain) to train – as evidenced by published images on social networks -, What he did not specify in the entrance form on the Australian territory, made public Tuesday.
Wednesday, in a Press release Posted on Instagram , the Serb explained that his agent had filled the document by committing a “human error, certainly not deliberate”.
An investigation from the German weekly Der Spiegel published Tuesday also came to Discard doubt on the date of the PCR test Positive presented by Novak Djokovic, issuing the hypothesis that he would not have taken place on December 16, but on December 26th …
On the other hand, if this PCR test had taken place on December 16 and if it had been positive, then tennisman would not have respected the rules of isolation in Serbia. That day, Novak Djokovic has shown without mask during the presentation of a stamp to his effigy by the Serbian post. The next day he handed trophies to young people in his academy in Belgrade, posing in the middle of them once again unaspic.
“I was asymptomatic (…) and received the information of my positive PCR test once this event is over,” the player was justified on Wednesday, who admitted “error of judgment” By receiving a journalist and a daily photographer the team on December 18th.