{"id":1549121,"date":"2022-07-11T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549121"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:05:25","slug":"john-mcenroe-blasts-politicians-for-vax-mandate-blocking-novak-djokovic-from-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-mcenroe-blasts-politicians-for-vax-mandate-blocking-novak-djokovic-from-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"John McEnroe Blasts Politicians For Vax Mandate Blocking Novak Djokovic From U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-mcenroe-blasts-politicians-for-vax-mandate-blocking-novak-djokovic-from-u-s-open%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549121&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tennis legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/john-mcenroe-truth-teller-amanda-prestigiacomo\">John McEnroe<\/a> blasted politicians for a vaccine mandate that is effectively barring Serbian tennis star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/novak-djokovic\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> from participating in the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>Per a rule from the U.S.\u00a0Department of Homeland Security, 21-time Grand Slam champ Djokovic cannot travel to the U.S. for the competition next month since he remains unvaccinated against COVID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese politicians are getting in the way too much,\u201d McEnroe <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/10\/john-mcenroe-slams-pols-over-novak-djokovic-us-open-ban\/\">blasted<\/a>\u00a0via ESPN airwaves on Sunday. \u201cThey did it in Australia. Let\u2019s let the guy come in and play in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, come on,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McEnroe\u2019s brother Patrick, who also played professional tennis, agreed.\u00a0\u201cWhatever you think the government should or should not do, it\u2019s a bummer for tennis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-viable-alternative-wimbledon-defends-decision-to-ban-players-from-russia-belarus\">Wimbledon<\/a> for the seventh time in his career on Sunday, dropping Nick Kyrgios in four sets.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis star told the press on Sunday he\u2019s hoping the U.S. allows him to enter the country, but has no plans to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not vaccinated and I\u2019m not planning to get vaccinated,\u201d he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/djokovic-hopes-virus-rule-change-205515934.html\">according<\/a> to Yahoo Sports. \u201cSo the only good news I can have is them removing the mandated green vaccine card, or whatever you call it to enter United States or exemption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think exemption is realistically possible,\u201d Djokovic added. \u201cI think it\u2019s just whether or not they remove this in time for me to get to the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-60354068\">told<\/a> the BBC in February that he\u2019s willing to sacrifice championships to stand up for his belief in medical freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the price that I\u2019m willing to pay,\u201d\u00a0Djokovic said about potentially missed tournaments over the vaccine requirement. \u201cBecause the principles of decision making on my body are more important than any title or anything else. I\u2019m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was never against vaccination,\u201d the athlete said,\u00a0\u201cbut I\u2019ve always supported the freedom to choose what you put in your body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Djokovic has already had to sacrifice for this principle. In January, the tennis star was dramatically detained and deported from Australia over his vaccination status, rendering him unable to defend his Australian Open title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has affected me definitely in the first several months of the year,\u201d Djokovic told the press this weekend. \u201cI was not feeling great generally. I mean, mentally, emotionally, I was not at a good place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-real-reason-unvaxxed-tennis-star-novak-djokovic-had-his-visa-canceled-before-australian-open-report\">The \u2018Real\u2019 Reason Unvaxxed Tennis Star Novak Djokovic Had His Visa Canceled Before Australian Open:\u00a0Report<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend John McEnroe blasted politicians for a vaccine mandate that is effectively barring Serbian tennis star\u00a0Novak Djokovic from participating in the U.S. Open. Per a rule from the U.S.\u00a0Department of Homeland Security, 21-time Grand Slam champ Djokovic cannot travel to the U.S. for the competition next month since he remains unvaccinated against COVID. \u201cThese &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1549221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}