Djokovic, awaiting the decision of the Australian court that will analyze his case on Monday

An Australian court will analyze on Monday the appeal presented by the lawyers of Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic after the revocation of his visa to enter the country with a medical exemption that allowed him to participate in the Australian Open, reported the public channel ABC.

After a quick preliminary hearing, Judge Anthony Kelly, of a Melbourne court, ordered both parties to deliver their arguments over the weekend, which will be analyzed on Monday from 10 in the morning.

Djokovic will not be deported until the matter is addressed in court and will remain, for the time being, housed in a hotel in the city without being able to leave the building.

Not having the visa in order

The Australian government prevented the entry into the country of Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, number one in the world, by not having the visa in order and “not complying” with the medical exemption for which he had been authorized a day before to play the Open Australia, the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the season, despite not being vaccinated against covid-19 and this being a condition of the Government to enter the country.

Djokovic, who was detained at Melbourne airport for eight hours, his father explained to Serbian radio station B92, was unable to enter Australia on a flight from Dubai. ‘Nole’ had been cleared the day before and was coming ready to renew his title on the Australian fast track.

However, everything changed this Wednesday, when the country’s authorities categorically denied that Djokovic would have a favorable treatment if he did not comply with the medical exemption due to an allergic process, a recent surgical intervention or some other reason that would have convinced the tournament. But it was not like that.

Djokovic’s application was rejected, because it did not provide “adequate evidence” to enter Australia.

You are not a victim of harassment

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied on Thursday that the world’s number one tennis player is the victim of harassment, in response to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

“Australia has clear rules on its sovereign borders that are not discriminatory,” Morrison said at a press conference in Canberra, explaining that the last-minute revocation responds to “the reasonable application of Australia’s border protection laws.” .

Morrison’s statements come after the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, assured the day before that his country will fight to defend Djokovic and that the authorities of the Balkan country are working to stop “the harassment” of the player, known for his opposition to mandatory vaccination against covid-19.

“The Spartacus of the new world”

The Serbian tennis player’s father, Srdjan Djokovic, has assured that his son is a “prisoner” of the Australian authorities, who do not allow him to enter the country because he is not vaccinated against the coronavirus, and has stated that “everyone should get up free “against this injustice and support” the Spartacus of the new world.

“Novak and his team submitted the same documents as 25 other tennis players (who received exemptions) and they had no problem, just Novak,” he told Sky News. “They wanted to humiliate him. They could have said ‘don’t come, Novak’, and that would have been fine. But no, they wanted to humiliate him and they still keep him in prison,” he added about his son’s confinement in a hotel.

In this sense, he reiterated that the tennis player “is not detained, he is in prison.” “They took all his things, including his wallet, they left him alone with his phone and without changing his clothes, with nowhere to wash his face,” he said.

Nadal reaction

For his part, the Balearic tennis player Rafa Nadal has assured that he feels the situation that his partner is going through, and has explained that although he is “free to make his own decisions” he must know that everything has “consequences”.

“I think if he wanted to, he would be playing here in Australia without any problem. He made his own decisions and everyone is free to make their own decisions, but then there are some consequences,” he said at a press conference.