The Australian Open hasn’t started yet, but that’s all the talk of the world of tennis. The Grand Slam, which is held at the start of the year, is due to start within two weeks, but the current health crisis makes things very complicated. If the tournament organizers order all participants to be vaccinated to participate, only one player was entitled to a medical exemption, Novak Djokovic. The world number one, ultra favorite and already nine times winner of the Australian tournament benefited to everyone’s surprise from this exemption, he who is known to be reluctant to vaccination, and he is not the only tennis player.
A situation that caused a lot of talk when Jelena’s husband posted the news on his Instagram account. Since then, the Australian government has decided to get involved and the Prime Minister himself, Scott Morrison, has wanted to be very clear. “If he is not vaccinated, he must provide acceptable proof that he cannot be for medical reasons in order to be able to travel under the same conditions as the vaccinated persons “, he said at a press conference reported by SBS.
If this proof is not sufficient, he will be treated like all the others.
Very clear on his intentions, the Prime Minister does not want to do any favors to Novak Djokovic. “If this proof is not sufficient, he will be treated like all the others (note, non-vaccinated)”, he adds before asserting that if this turns out to be the case, the 34-year-old Serbian tennis player would be “sent home on the first plane “.