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Novak Djokovic’s parents joined a protestation rally successful downtown Belgrade connected Sunday with their tennis-great lad inactive successful an Australian migration detention edifice arsenic fans of Djokovic successful Serbia nervously awaited a important tribunal proceeding which could determine whether helium tin play astatine the Australian Open.
The virtual proceeding successful Melbourne, with Djokovic appealing his visa cancellation, comes amid a increasing nationalist statement implicit his affirmative coronavirus trial that his lawyers utilized arsenic grounds successful applying for a aesculapian exemption to Australia’s strict vaccination rules.
The top-ranked Serb, who hopes to support his rubric astatine the Australian Open and triumph a men’s grounds 21st Grand Slam singles title, was denied introduction erstwhile helium arrived astatine Melbourne’s airdrome connected Wednesday and was awaiting the tribunal proceeding to situation his deportation.
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The proceeding volition instrumentality spot astatine 10 americium successful the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia.
The Australian Open begins Jan. 17 — conscionable a week from Djokovic's tribunal date.
The lawsuit has polarized opinions astir the satellite and elicited heartfelt enactment for the tennis prima successful his autochthonal Serbia.
“Today is simply a large day. Today, the full satellite volition perceive the truth," Djokovic's mother, Dijana Djokovic, told the assemblage successful downtown Belgrade.
"We anticipation that Novak volition travel retired arsenic a escaped man. We nonstop large emotion to Novak. We judge successful him, but besides successful the autarkic judiciary successful Melbourne,” she said.
Djokovic’s father, Srdjan Djokovic, said “this is happening due to the fact that we are lone a tiny portion of the world, but we are arrogant people.
“They can’t interruption us. Novak is the personification of freedom, everything quality that 1 antheral contains successful himself. Shame connected them!”
Dijana Djokovic said that the conditions successful the edifice successful Melbourne wherever Djokovic is staying are “not humane.”
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“He doesn’t adjacent person breakfast,” she said. “He has a partition to look astatine and helium can’t adjacent spot a parkland successful beforehand oregon spell retired of the room.”
Australian officials initially said Djokovic, a vocal skeptic of vaccines who has refused to accidental if helium has gotten the COVID-19 shot, would beryllium fixed an exemption to stringent vaccine rules by authorities authorities and beryllium capable to enactment successful the Australian Open. But erstwhile helium landed, his visa was canceled by national borderline officials.
The exemption petition said Djokovic’s archetypal affirmative trial was Dec. 16 and, connected the day of issue, it said the 34-year-old subordinate “had not had a fever oregon respiratory symptoms successful the past 72 hours.”
Social media is swamped with questions implicit Djokovic’s whereabouts aft the alleged affirmative COVID-19 trial amid a surge of the pandemic.
Djokovic attended 2 nationalist events connected Dec. 16 successful Belgrade, arsenic good arsenic a Dec. 17 lawsuit successful the Serbian superior honoring young tennis players. The lawsuit was covered by section media, and parents posted photos connected societal media showing Djokovic and the children not wearing masks. It’s not wide if Djokovic knew the results of his trial astatine the time.
Days aboriginal helium was shown playing tennis successful a parkland successful beforehand of his flat successful Belgrade.
“Legally, Djokovic doesn’t person to explicate what happened (after his affirmative test) but it would beryllium precise bully for his estimation present and the full world,” Sasa Ozmo, a Serbian sports journalist, told the N1 television.
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