Novak Djokovic.(Source: Twitter)
Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Serbia crew for the ATP Cup in Sydney, match organisers said on Wednesday (December 29), raising additional doubts over whether or no longer the arena amount one will defend his Australian Start title subsequent month.
There has been intense hypothesis over Djokovic’s participation in each and each events, with the 34-year-aged, who is against COVID-19 vaccinations, time and again declining to explain if he has been inoculated against the virus.
Djokovic European sportsman of the year!
Novak Djokovic has been elected before Robert Lewandowski and Max Verstappen by 26 European press agencies. pic.twitter.com/Ch3TQv7S40
— We Are Tennis (@WeAreTennis) December 27, 2021
Organisers of the Australian Start, which starts on January 17, admire stipulated that every body participants must be vaccinated against the coronavirus or admire a clinical exemption granted by an honest panel of consultants. “Novak Djokovic has formally withdrawn from the ATP Cup in Sydney, we build no longer admire any change as but on his plans for the Australian Start,” a Tennis Australia spokeswoman said in an emailed commentary.
“Referring to the clinical exemption job, which pertains to all avid gamers, there is a rigorous and honest job in build. As with all clinical knowledge it’s topic to confidentiality.”
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— Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) November 29, 2021
The world men’s tennis governing physique ATP didn’t as we divulge reply to a ask for observation. ATP Cup organisers said Serbia’s crew would now be led by world amount 33 Dusan Lajovic.
Owing to Djokovic’s present world rating, Serbia got high billing for the 16-crew match, which runs from January 1-9, and had been drawn in Neighborhood A in conjunction with Norway, Chile and Spain.
Djokovic has won a myth nine Australian Start titles, including the final three, and is in a 3-way tie on 20 most important titles with Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal in the all-time listing. His father Srdjan educated a Serbian tv channel final month that Djokovic would potentially pull out of the most important, asserting Tennis Australia’s stance on crucial vaccination modified into tantamount to “blackmail”.
The season-opening ATP Cup furthermore saw Austria, which failed the eligibility standards following the withdrawal of Dominic Thiem and Dennis Novak, replaced by France.
Russia, which won the 2021 title, could be missing Andrey Rublev and Aslan Karatsev from that crew.
