Anyone know what is his medical exception?
If I were him at this point I’d throw up the middle finger to the Australian Open and never play there again.
He has a few more years in him and will get enough grand slams elsewhere to cement his place in history as the GOAT.
Its their loss not his. Go Novak!
What is the story with the whole "a family man" line.
I know loads of family men who are absolutely rotten people
Its amazing. Its been the very same on this site. The people normally demanding stricter immigration are now demanding much more lax immigration.
It's their country and their rules. If you think their rules or actions are not fair, that's irrelevant. Their rules.
(Personally, given what has come out about it, especially lying on the immigration form, he should be ejected from the country posthaste. If you want to support him for lying on his form in order to get in, then I presume you'd also support an immigrant coming iinto Ireland on forged or stolen identity documents. It's the same principle.)
What exactly do you think they are losing? The Australian open is going ahead. Ticket sales and viewing probably won't be hugely affected. Most people will have forgotten all about this in a couple of months until it's possibly brought up again for the 2023 Australian Open. The only person losing anything is Novak Djokovic.
Imagine slating someone else's posting style, while simultaneously refusing to use capital letters or any form of punctuation.
He wasn't shafted by anyone other than his own smug sense if superiority. He thought he could pull a fast one, and was caught. He then tried to weasel his way out of it by claiming ignorance of the laws and regulations in place, and was caught out again. You claim he followed the process, but it is plain for all to see that he did not. At least, not correctly, and now he's dealing with the consequences of that.
As the old saying goes, he f****** around, and found out.
The Australian Open parent organisation lost over $100 million in the last 15 months
Ticket sales this year will be capped by the government due to Omicron so they will lose more money
Djokovic not being there will undoubtedly affect television ratings and any ratings performance related revenue
Sponsors are not a big fan of the location of the Australian Open because Australia is not a big market compared to the other locations
There is some talk of it being moved to Singapore over the longer term as it would be more valuable from a sponsor point of view (Japan, China etc)
The ATP could do that
What occurred this year is not going to help their case
A judge ruled that I have to raze the extension and house - something about not having planning permission or an environmental impact report or the right connections.
Ah to be fair the ATP haven't been trying to help Novak at all. I don't really believe this threat angle of the Australian open not being held in Australia before. I want him to play and hopefully get beaten. I've a funny feeling he will get to play!
Yeah I'd say he has maybe 3 seasons left in him, so that won't be a problem.
he followed the exemptions process, as others did, as set-up by the Victorian Government and Tennis Australia and as approved by the Federal Government
The Czech tennis player and the other official got in that way ahead of Djokovic
The federal advice to Tennis Australia aligns with statements made by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the day Djokovic arrived.
Asked whether the world No. 1 had received an exemption, Mr Morrison said on January 5: “Well, that is a matter for the Victorian government. They have provided him with an exemption to come to Australia, and so we then act in accordance with that decision … That’s how it works. States provide exemptions for people to enter on those bases.”
Djokovic would have never come within an ass's roar of Australia otherwise. Either would the other people with the exemptions.
The mess-ups internally and political flip-flopping are fully the fault of the Australians on this.
The only thing that the Australians could point to relevant to the situation is the 14-day travel declaration thing but even the smallest of children can see that that makes no practical difference to anything.
In the end what they used was this 133c law which is a broad power "at the discretion of the minister".
Name a sporting organisation that hasn't had a loss of earnings in the last couple of years due to covid.
The same amount of tickets will be sold with or without Djokovic as they are capped at 50% capacity. If it were full capacity then this may have been affected.
Any decision to move it to Singapore will be financial and nothing to do with any single player.
I’m all for strict checks, but I am also for common sense and discretion as well. Being strict, firm and fair can coexist with discretion and common sense.
advocating for common sense in Nole’s case here, where he is clearly well known as not a criminal, terrorist, sponger, and as someone who will be home in 3 weeks doesn’t mean anyone is saying that the Aussies should drop their guard in the visa process.
the option to use discretion and common sense was screaming! They chose to be hostile pr1cks on this
The ATP would do that for the other reasons outlined - nothing to do with Djokovic
I agree unlikely and would not happen for years if did.
But if Tennis Australia go bankrupt then it wouldn't help.
I didn't say that it would be anything to do with a player.
Maybe ask Tennis Ireland for advice and see what they say. People on here seem to think Tennis association's advice trumps government laws or judges decisions so maybe give it a go.
No it's not. It's not even close. He's only visiting Australia for a few weeks, not looking to live there. He probably wouldn't want to visit there again outside of tennis after all of this. I know I wouldn't want to go there. And Djokovic would be/is in a well contained bubble, it's not like he's galavanting across the country like a super spreader. Australia poses more of a threat to him, than he does to Australia.
Boo. Hoo.
Dear me, that's some amount of stored up venom being unleashed, there
he made a false declaration on his visa application.
Did you just put Djokovic and bubble in the same sentence? Have you considered a career in comedy?
"Dimitrov was the first to test positive, followed by Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki. The final of the event was cancelled after Dimitrov's diagnosis."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-24/novak-djokovic-charity-tennis-tournament-became-coronavirus-mess/12387086
you're misreading - it's exasperation at trolling and other poor practices primarily designed to be inflammatory
goes back to this post above
he was going to public events while he had covid. not somebody you could trust in that regard.
^^ Just saying....
Yes, I wasn't comparing the rape element. It's the bizarre passionate defence of Djokovic by some of his militant supporters that the reason he will likely be deported is everybody else's fault apart from Djokovic. When in actuality, he lied on his immigration forms for access to Australia. This is a situation entirely of his own making.
There is an exemption for planning for extensions of a certain size and location etc. Implicit in that is that you cannot override other rules. For example, if your house is beside a listed building, you can't expect to be allowed to go in and bulldoze it because you needed the space for your 80m^2 extension.
Can they trust him not to be galavanting around the country. He has admitted although only after being found out that he went galavanting around serbia like a super spreader the day after receiving a positive test result.
He has also admitted to being in Spain having previously denied it.
How could the Australians believe anything he agreed to? He is not trustworthy relating to his movements and actions and as such visa cancelled.
It would have been easier for the minister to just allow him in as by cancelling he has to be sure it will stick.
I believe they have their ducks suitably lined up this time to cover off all eventualities. The delay in coming to this decision likely timed to cut his options.
I mean it's literally his loss, but ok.
his behaviour is so disrespectful towards his fellow tennis players.. those who have had the vaccine and some against their wishes but they did so out of respect for the country they were entering.. he deserves to be sent home.. if he had an ounce of decency he would either take the vaccine or go home!
TV sponsorship isn't performance rated in the same year, the money is already committed by multi-year deal. So irrelevant.
Djokovic being absent opens up the draw and makes it more competitive for the other 127 players, their nations, their fans and the global TV audience. The only negative audience will those who turn off in Serbia. Oh no, what shall they do without them.
And for the same reason, the sponsors care about the global audience on telly, not the crowd on site. You don't seriously think KIA cars are only after the Aussie market when they are seeking to build on 3 million global sales!
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