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Novak Djokovic facing a horizon riddled with question marks

2022-01-16T17:54:14.903Z


ANALYSIS – Deprived of the Australian Open, the world number 1 will find himself tied up by the sanitary measures applied by the tournament organizing countries. His star is fading.


Djokovic.

Fifteen hours only before the first exchanges of the Australian Open resound, the imperishable soap opera died out.

The Australian Federal Court on Sunday rejected (unanimously by the three judges) Novak Djokovic's appeal against his expulsion from the country, ordered by the government which considered that the world number one, not vaccinated against Covid-19, represented a

“health risk”

.

The Serb who wanted to be king was brutally reminded that he was not above the law.

His insurance, useful between the lines of the courts to bend his rivals, gradually distanced him from the implacable Australian political reality.

Novak Djokovic lost what he never imagined.

He has, by dint of stubbornness, hit a wall.

The one drawn up by a country in the grip of an unprecedented explosion of cases of Covid-19 contamination.

“They think that with these ten days of mistreatment they have humiliated Djokovic.

They humiliated themselves, Djokovic…

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Source: lefigaro

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