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Novak Djokovic faces deportation after Australian government revokes his visa for a second time | Tennis News

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Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open title defence looks to be over

Novak Djokovic faces deportation after the Australian government revoked his visa for a second time, three days away from the start of the 2022 Australian Open. 

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke released a statement just before 7am UK time explaining that his decision to cancel the men’s world number one’s visa was made “in the public interest”, but Djokovic’s legal team have since submitted a request for an injunction, delaying his deportation.

The nine-time Australian Open winner will not be detained or deported overnight, although he will be under detention on Saturday morning when he attends the office of his lawyers ahead of the hearing on Sunday morning.

The 34-year-old was included in Thursday’s first-round draw, amid uncertainty over whether he would remain in the country, and Djokovic must now anxiously await a ruling to find out whether he can pursue his 21st Grand Slam title against unseeded Serb Miomir Kecmanovic on Monday.

Hawke said: “Today I exercised my power under section 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the visa held by Mr Novak Djokovic on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so.

Novak Djokovic has admitted to making an 'error of judgement' by attending an interview and photoshoot with a French newspaper after testing positive for Covid-19 last month

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Novak Djokovic has admitted to making an ‘error of judgement’ by attending an interview and photoshoot with a French newspaper after testing positive for Covid-19 last month

Novak Djokovic has admitted to making an ‘error of judgement’ by attending an interview and photoshoot with a French newspaper after testing positive for Covid-19 last month

“The decision followed orders by the Federal Circuit and Family Court on 10 January 2022, quashing a prior cancellation decision on procedural fairness grounds.

“In making this decision, I carefully considered information

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Novak Djokovic denied entry to Australia, visa cancelled

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Novak Djokovic’s probability to perform for a 10th Australian Open up title was thrown into limbo Thursday when the region denied him entry and canceled his visa due to the fact he unsuccessful to meet the specifications for an exemption to COVID-19 vaccination regulations.

The best-rated Djokovic announced on social media Tuesday that he experienced “exemption permission” and landed in Australia late Wednesday just after obtaining a medical exemption from the Victoria condition federal government that was predicted to protect him from the rigid vaccination rules in spot for this year’s initial key tennis tournament.

But border authorities did not accept the exemption. The Australian Border Pressure issued a statement declaring Djokovic unsuccessful to fulfill entry demands.

“The rule is very obvious,” Key Minister Scott Morrison explained to a news convention Thursday. “You have to have to have a clinical exemption. He did not have a valid health care exemption. We make the phone at the border, and that’s the place it is enforced.”

Well being Minister Greg Hunt mentioned the visa cancellation followed a overview of Djokovic’s medical exemption by border officers who appeared “at the integrity and the evidence driving it.”

He reported Djokovic was no cost to enchantment the final decision, “but if a visa is canceled, somebody will have to go away the state.”

The president of Djokovic’s indigenous Serbia blasted the “harassment” of

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