Taras BarabashCorrespondent SportAll materialsThe first Grand Slam tournament of the year starts on Monday night Moscow time. The main draw matches of the Australian Open will be held from 17 to 30 January in Melbourne (Victoria). The current champion and nine-time winner of the competition Novak Djokovic will not perform at the tournament. On Sunday it became known that the Serb will be deported from the Green Continent. Djokovic arrived in Australia to participate in the Australian Open on 5 January. The next day, he was placed in an immigration detention center, as the authorities were not convinced of the reasons for the athlete's medical withdrawal from the coronavirus vaccination. Four days later, Djokovic was released from detention by court order, but on Friday, Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke decided to re-revoke the athlete’s visa “in the public interest.” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has already issued a statement, noting that “the Australian authorities The visas of the first racket of the world have humiliated themselves.» “Those who think that they have defended some principles have shown that they have no principles. They mocked the best tennis player for 10-11 days in order to hand him the decision, which they knew that from the first day he would be handed over,” Vucic told reporters .
