{"id":1789917,"date":"2022-12-29T08:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789917"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:03:59","slug":"novak-djokovic-arrives-in-australia-a-year-after-covid-vaccine-drama-and-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/novak-djokovic-arrives-in-australia-a-year-after-covid-vaccine-drama-and-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic Arrives in Australia a Year After COVID Vaccine Drama and Deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fnovak-djokovic-arrives-in-australia-a-year-after-covid-vaccine-drama-and-deportation%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=1789917&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 class=\"speakable\">Nearly a year after getting deported over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 vaccine status,<\/a> Novak Djokovic is back in Australia in pursuit of a record-extending 10th grand slam title at Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/tennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennis Australia<\/a> confirmed Wednesday that Djokovic landed in Adelaide the previous night to compete in the 2023 Adelaide International, which begins on Sunday, and the Australian Open which begins early next month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Novak Djokovic playing a relaxed warm-up with his training team during a media opportunity ahead of the 2023 Adelaide International at Memorial Drive on Dec. 28, 2022 in Adelaide, Australia.\u00a0 (Mark Brake\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Novak is welcome in Australia,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open<\/a> tournament director Craig Tiley said at a news conference Tuesday. &#8220;I think as we speak he has landed in Adelaide, and he&#8217;s going to be the player to beat (at the Australian Open) again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/novak-djokovic-points-positive-signs-ahead-australian-open-2023-i-just-want-play-tennis\"><strong>NOVAK DJOKOVIC POINTS TO \u2018POSITIVE SIGNS\u2019 AHEAD OF AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2023: \u2018I JUST WANT TO PLAY TENNIS\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon landing in Melbourne early last year, Djokovic\u2019s visa was canceled by border officials who said he did not qualify for a medical exemption from Australia\u2019s rules for unvaccinated visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was previously exempted from the tournament\u2019s vaccine rules because he had COVID within the previous six months. He later won an appeal to stay for the tournament, but Australia&#8217;s immigration minister then revoked his visa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Novak Djokovic arrives at center court during a media opportunity ahead of the 2023 Adelaide International at Memorial Drive on Dec. 28, 2022 in Adelaide, Australia.\u00a0 (Mark Brake\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three federal court judges ruled in favor of the immigration minister\u2019s right to cancel Djokovic\u2019s visa, and he was deported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has openly defended his choice not to get the vaccine, regardless of what tournaments in 2022 would allow him to compete. He competed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/tennis\/french-open\">French Open<\/a> in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year after getting deported over his COVID-19 vaccine status, Novak Djokovic is back in Australia in pursuit of a record-extending 10th grand slam title at Australian Open. Tennis Australia confirmed Wednesday that Djokovic landed in Adelaide the previous night to compete in the 2023 Adelaide International, which begins on Sunday, and the Australian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1789922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10610,8960,5458,4127,6184,12345,9792,12344,3819,3954],"class_list":["post-1789917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-arrives","tag-australia","tag-bongino","tag-covid","tag-deportation","tag-djokovic","tag-drama","tag-novak","tag-report","tag-vaccine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789917","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}