The Official Tennis Thread

[seafoid]

He may also miss the French open.

[Milltown Row2]

Where all the English cricket team and their families vaccinated?

[David McKeown]

Is the issue not that he won't disclose the nature of the medical exemption to border security and was relying on his doctors saying he had one which was acceptable to the tennis authorities and the government officials associated with them but not to the border officials?

[nrico2006]

His medical exemption is based on the fact he had covid within the last 6 months,  which is a valid exemption. A joke that others have been permitted with the same exemption but he hasn't, just making him the scapegoat.

[David McKeown]

His medical exemption is based on the fact he had covid within the last 6 months,  which is a valid exemption. A joke that others have been permitted with the same exemption but he hasn't, just making him the scapegoat.

Is that right though. I thought he was refusing to disclose what his exemption is.

[GiveItToTheShooters]

Fair play to Australia. He's an entitled ballbag who thinks he can be treated differently to the rest.

[seafoid]

Is the issue not that he won't disclose the nature of the medical exemption to border security and was relying on his doctors saying he had one which was acceptable to the tennis authorities and the government officials associated with them but not to the border officials?

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/johnny-watterson-lateral-flow-of-time-will-expose-djokovic-s-anti-vaxxer-crusade-1.4770513

That is an Australian government that at state level thought they had his waiver to play covered and a federal government reading the room and going with the flow of their voters. 

[Hound]

His medical exemption is based on the fact he had covid within the last 6 months,  which is a valid exemption. A joke that others have been permitted with the same exemption but he hasn't, just making him the scapegoat.

Is that right though. I thought he was refusing to disclose what his exemption is.

Not impossible, but it's thought unlikely that he qualifies for a vaccine on medical grounds. As he has not explained it or produced documentation to the Aussie authorities to support a medical exemption, the thinking is he was trying to avail of an exemption on the basis he has tested positive within the last 6 months. Unfortunately no such exemption exists.  He may well have been wrongly informed by Tennis Australia, so the government are now reviewing all exemptions given to tennis players.

He was caught because he was high profile, but he is not being singled out. Any others will be dealt with similarly if they have no supportable medical exemption.

[johnnycool]

Where all the English cricket team and their families vaccinated?

England sent a cricket team?

When did this happen?

[seafoid]

Fair play to Australia. He's an entitled ballbag who thinks he can be treated differently to the rest.

Antivaxxers are tearing the arse out of it at this stage

[Man Marker]

Fair play to Australia. He's an entitled ballbag who thinks he can be treated differently to the rest.

Antivaxxers are tearing the arse out of it at this stage

so lets stack this up

He recently had covid, which means he has a natural immunity
His medical papers would demonstrated this, if they need more medical evidence you can be sure it will be supplied, never mind the fact other players got through with the same process
His current PCR etc is negative which means he has NOT got covid

This isn't about covid, its about votes and responding to the media pressure. Its political, period.

Australia is a hole presently to be avoided.

[mrdeeds]

Fair play to Australia. He's an entitled ballbag who thinks he can be treated differently to the rest.

Antivaxxers are tearing the arse out of it at this stage

so lets stack this up

He recently had covid, which means he has a natural immunity
His medical papers would demonstrated this, if they need more medical evidence you can be sure it will be supplied, never mind the fact other players got through with the same process
His current PCR etc is negative which means he has NOT got covid

This isn't about covid, its about votes and responding to the media pressure. Its political, period.

Australia is a hole presently to be avoided.

Did he not use wrong Visa?

[lenny]

Fair play to Australia. He's an entitled ballbag who thinks he can be treated differently to the rest.

Antivaxxers are tearing the arse out of it at this stage

so lets stack this up

He recently had covid, which means he has a natural immunity
His medical papers would demonstrated this, if they need more medical evidence you can be sure it will be supplied, never mind the fact other players got through with the same process
His current PCR etc is negative which means he has NOT got covid

This isn't about covid, its about votes and responding to the media pressure. Its political, period.

Australia is a hole presently to be avoided.

He had Covid last year, not recently. Keir Starmer has tested positive again within 2 months of a previous infection so the natural immunity you talk about is rubbish. He has the simple opportunity to get vaccinated which would give the Australian authorities the assurance that in the event of him getting Covid he wouldn't be taking up a valuable hospital bed. He's being a dick and the Australians are showing that their laws are being applied fairly.

[imtommygunn]

Letting him in to the country says one rule for him and one rule for everyone else. I didn't see how they could do that irrepsctive of the topic tbh.

[Man Marker]

And you think him being vaccinated would have stopped him getting covid. It very obvious this is a pollical move.  He was ok'd by the tennis authorities (they have to take a good chunk of blame for not being all over this as well) Mondays court hearing will tell a tale. Big news day.

itg, that would be true if it was only him. But by reports there have been a number of less high profile sports people entered with similar evidence. As I say the court hearing on Monday will tell a tale.