The decision means the top-ranked tennis player will likely miss the Australian Open. “They expect to be on the flight back home later in the day,” a source told BuzzFeed News.
The tournament’s defending champion had surprised many Tuesday when he posted on social media that he had been granted an “exemption permission” to travel to Australia. But, as Melbourne’s
as Australia sought to keep COVID cases at zero prior to widespread vaccination, caused a massive outcry in the country. “I don't care how good a tennis player he is. If he's refusing to get vaccinated, he shouldn't be allowed in,” former Australian Medical Association vice president Stephen Parnis wrote onAsked about the tennis player’s exemption at a press conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters Djokovic would need to"provide acceptable proof" for his claim that he couldn’t be vaccinated for medical reasons..
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