My understanding is that it would go to the same judge who does seem somewhat sympathetic to Novak, so, yeah, he could keep playing while it goes through the courts. And we all know that court cases generally take longer than a grand slam tournament.
Well in my job I also have to be vaccinated I can relate Don.It's his problem, not mineI got vaccinated, because of the job/frequent traveling. He could have done it too, but chose not to and now faces the consequences. Simple as that.
The ones that wanted to go got their vaccinations, which is most of them. They have no fear of not being allowed in the future. There's no reason to extract what is happening to Novak to other players. Novak is in many ways the author of his own destruction here. There were simple solutions to his dilemma, and they were offered to him.
Novak is just on a 'self destruction' trip at the moment,sad for a No 1 player to behave like this.
But I don't think this is how he sees it. He's lost all perceptive. He thinks he's right, and he's being persecuted for no reason. He also does seem to think he's above the law, possibly abetted by Craig Tiley, and Judge Kelly. He's told he's right by his team and his family and his fellow Serbs, and now he's the victim here. He always turns himself into the victim when he's done something wrong.
But they are a country of laws, and it will have to go through process, I assume. I mean, as we know, any normal Joe or Jane would have been long gone, as the Czech Jane was, but if you have the money to prolong the process, it's still possible. And Novak does. But it is an immigration and border issue, and if they want to deport him, he should be on the next plane, full stop. But this is where money and power comes in. Which is sticking in people's craws, around the world. It's blatant.
I completely doubt that he thought it would go this way. Who could have? No one expected an utter international sh¡t storm. He absolutely believed he'd swan in with his exemption and it was all over. Now he's just trying to stick his big chin out and hope the expensive lawyers do him right.
I don’t know, he had to have known his visa lie alone would be enough to get him stopped. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I don’t see how he couldn’t have felt that this would happen.
I think the time for deal-cutting has passed. Mostly. I don't know if you read above that it was revealed that Novak was offered to take one jab in Australia, by last Monday, and they would call that, with his Covid positive, a 2 x jab and let him in, no harm no foul. And he refused.
