World No.1 Novak Djokovic has expressed his want to play at subsequent 12 months’s Australian Open, saying he holds no grudges after the visa debacle this 12 months. Djokovic was deported from the nation on the eve of this 12 months’s Australian Open because of points over his Covid vaccination standing.
“I don’t know anything about whether my visa is going to be reinstated or whether I’m going to be allowed to come back to Australia. I would like to. I would like to go there and play the Australian Open,” he instructed a information convention.
“I don’t hold any grudges. Look, you know, it was what it was. If I have an opportunity to go back to Australia and play a place where I made the biggest success in my career in Grand Slam, I would love to come back.”
Djokovic, who will not be vaccinated towards COVID-19, was flown out of Australia after an 11-day ordeal on the discretion of the nation’s immigration minister over issues the tennis nice might gasoline anti-vax sentiment.
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Djokovic had spent some days in an immigration detention centre in Melbourne and had met refugees who had been there for years. Some have since been launched.
“If that’s correct, then I’m obviously very happy about it, because I know that it was very difficult for them, particularly for the ones that stayed there for nine years,” Djokovic mentioned.
“You know, I stayed there for a week, and I can’t imagine how they felt for nine years. If I brought some light to that situation then, you know, in a positive way for them, for this to happen, then of course I’m very happy.”
The debacle surrounding Djokovic disadvantaged the 35-year-old of the possibility to win a record-extending tenth Australian Open. He might have additionally claimed a report twenty first Grand Slam title – a feat his rival Rafa Nadal managed to attain in Melbourne as an alternative.
