The Tennis Thread

I have a feeling that’s what we will get from her, I’m glad she won the US even though a friend of mine said it might be too early.

Once you’ve won a grand slam you enter a select number.

I have a feeling she will win more, she doesn’t come across as the type who feel they’ve done it.

I expect she will win Wimbledon

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Not interested in Tennis but Emma is bae.

Perhaps the cringiest thing I’ve seen written on here :pensive:

So Djokovic gotten a medical exemption from Covid vaccination from a INDEPENDENT panel, just in time for the Australia Open. How convenient.

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I wonder if the 100th ranked player would have been granted the same exemption? Just asking…

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Article suggests there are others but no specific reason why he was granted access. He has had Covid though I believe.

I guess the interesting point is that he does not appear to be alone in the tennis world at not being vaccinated against Covid.

It should not be so difficult for Djokovic to just prove that he is not suitable for vaccination. For so long, he has refused to reveal his vaccination status and now suddenly he has ‘special’ reasons for exemption. What is that reason? He is entitled to his privacy but it should not be difficult to give a general reason whether he has a medically proven condition that backs the exemption. Instead, its another round of secrecy. Or he can just be a man and state categorically that he is anti-vaccine and live with the consequences of not being allowed to play in the circuit.

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bbc three laugh GIF by BBC

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Wasn’t this an admin error by one of his team?

Haha, Nadal gets the boot in.

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No way.

He’s not an idiot…he knows what he is doing.

That said, just heard a law professor from Sydney on the wireless and she said the Aussies have screwed the pooch sheep.

Really depends what the exception the Visa was granted on.

Without knowing that no lawyer however qualified they are would know.

This is what I heard. Admin error on the form but I wouldn’t quote me as fact.

If I understand it correctly, the AO organisors and VicGov granted exemptions, but he arrived under the wrong visa.

Pedantic I know, but if he or his people have got the wrong visa then that is his fuck up

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This seems like a disjointed process, as I what I read this morning was he was never given a visa waiver, only a waiver from the Aus Open. The government then said, that’s great they’ll allow you to play, but that still doesnt mean you’re getting a visa to enter the country.

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Fair enough, I would have thought a country has a right to bar anyone from the country, problem is people will muddy the waters.

Without being involved in the dispute It’s hard to know who is telling the truth, though knowing his history it’s probably not Novak.

What @Limiescouse said.

He has an exemption to play and to enter Victoria. If only he was flying in from Oodnadatta.

The international borders, however, are controlled by the Federal Guvmint, and ScoMo is lapping this up. ‘Rules are rules’ with a massive shit eating grin on his face.

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I once took a flight back to Coolie from Oodnadatta Airport Hair Care and Tyre Center. The plane was so small the top speed we could reach was the speed of smell.

At one point we got overtaken by a flock of geese when the pilot stuck his arm out of the window to wave them through

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Classic.

I also heard that not only did he not apply for the correct waiver visa to enter the country but upon arrival he had no travel documentation on him at all. Although presumably he had his passport.