Melbourne: Harapan Novak Djokovic to win the 10th Australian Open in Tatters on Thursday after visits was canceled on arrival in Melbourne.
AFP Sport checks the implications for the tournament if Djokovic cannot take part when the first Grand Slam year starts on January 17.
Djokovic World number one will pursue a 10 degree in Taman Melbourne and the Grand Slam Crown record 21.
Serbia aged 34 years is the Australian Open Champion in 2008, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
His hope for another title in the year 2022 slipped on one night of the drama at Melbourne airport when he was banned from entering Australia and his visa was canceled.
Serbia landed Wednesday night after celebrating social media that he had a medical exception to play in the tournament without evidence he was fully vaccinated with Covid-19.
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The exception of the vaccine, which can only be given after permission with two medical panels, sparked anger among Australians who had undergone the locking and restrictions of Covid-19 for two years.
Without Djokovic, Romantic Sports will dream Rafael Nadal instead won the 21st slam and adds to his victory in Australia in 2009.
The 35-year-old Spaniard is the level of 20 grand slam titles with Djokovic and Roger Federer.
Nadal arrived in Australia had been laid low by Covid-19 at the end of last year and had sat Wimbledon and the US Open in 2021 due to a foot injury.
The Australian Australian winner Federer was six times lost when a 40-year-old battle to recover from a knee injury.
Because Marat Safin won in Melbourne in 2005, the Norman Cup Brookes Brookes Australia had almost exclusively Djokovic, Nadal and Federer property.
Only Stan Wawrinka in 2014 – when he beat Nadal in the final – has interrupted 16 years of domination by “three big” sports, and he will also miss this year’s event due to injury.
So the stage can be set for a new name in the famous trophy with Russian Campeng Safin Daniil Medvedev in line to win the second major after blocking Djokovic’s hopes of the Grand Slam calendar in the US Open in 2021.
Medvedev lost to Djokovic in Australia opened the final in a direct set of last year But he arrived in Australia supported by helping Russia win the third Davis Cup in December.
If Medvedev shaken, Alexander Zverev or Stefanos Tsitipas Greece will have a great opportunity to lift his first slam crown.