[joeysteele]

I'm pleased at this outcome overall.

I know this is a big tournament and a possible record breaking one for him if he'd won it too.
Plus it's the first grand slam so had he won it, he'd have had a chance to do all the grand slam tournaments in the same year.

As he needs to abide by the rules of tennis however, he should ensure he abides by the rules and conditions of entry to other Nations equally.

[bots]

if he had kept his head down and arrived without crowing on social media he would probably have been fine.

[bots]

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Is he wearing a mask ??
Presumably he’s sat down in the corner ?


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[NICKP]

Can’t wait to see Djokovic’s 30 for 30 episode trying to make sense of all of this

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by NICKP

Can’t wait to see Djokovic’s 30 for 30 episode trying to make sense of all of this

You will rarely see the word ‘sense’ and Djokovic in the same sentence..


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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

You will rarely see the word ‘sense’ and Djokovic in the same sentence..


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Well unless it's "lack of" of course.

[Nicky91]

Youtube video

very fitting song for this outcome


''i fought the law and the law won''

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

Youtube video

very fitting song for this outcome


''i fought the law and the law won''

That's pretty funny.

[Nicky91]

https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/...an-open/849912

Salvatore Caruso replaces Novak Djokovic in australian open

Reigning Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic's dramatic exit from the Australian Open 2022 has opened gates for the 29-year-old Italian tennis player Salvatore Caruso.

World number one tennis player and the defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic's sudden exit from the Australian Open 2022 draw has given Italy's professional tennis player Salvatore Caruso an opportunity.

After Novak lost his legal battle to avoid deportation from Australia, Caruso was announced as his late replacement. The 29-year-old Italian is being termed as the "lucky loser" by netizens across several social media platforms. Caruso has never achieved a ranking higher than 76 in world tennis.

He earned his career-best ranking in 2020. He was competing in a lower-level tennis tournament in Bendigo just outside of Melbourne last week and was defeated in the semis.

Now that the world number one is officially out of the tournament, Caruso will take his place and battle against Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic on Show Court 2 instead of the Rod Laver Arena where the game was originally scheduled to be played.

The Rod Laver Arena will now see the clash between the world number three German tennis star Alexander Zverev and Daniel Altmaier on Monday night immediately after the match between local favourite and women's world number one Ash Barty and Lesia Tsurenko.

Salvatore Caruso was born on December 15, in 1992, at Avola, Sicily, in Italy. Before trying a hand at professional tennis, Caruso wanted to become a Formula 1 driver. Caruso turned a professional back in the year 2010 and is currently ranked 150 in the world.

His hopes of earning a direct entry into the Australian Open 2022 were ended during the final stage of the qualifiers after his loss (6-4 6-3) to the Japanese tennis player Taro Daniel.

[MTVN]

Hope Novak gets a very good reception when we welcome him here at Wimbledon

Whoever wins this Aus open will always have an asterisk by their name

[bots]

* vaccinated

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Hope Novak gets a very good reception when we welcome him here at Wimbledon

Whoever wins this Aus open will always have an asterisk by their name

There will be many tennis fans at Wimbledon who will be very vocal WHEN he’s playing .. he will divide loyalties


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[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Hope Novak gets a very good reception when we welcome him here at Wimbledon

Whoever wins this Aus open will always have an asterisk by their name

He is just a tennis player
It’s only a game of tennis

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Hope Novak gets a very good reception when we welcome him here at Wimbledon

Whoever wins this Aus open will always have an asterisk by their name

Only an imaginary * that most either won’t know or care about


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[arista]

[UserSince2005]

Ban her from the U.K. please. No Wimbledon for her.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The first athlete in history to be banned for not taking drugs

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The first athlete in history to be banned for not taking drugs

Well that’s another story completely

Djokovic went from a very good player to an unbelievably amazing player in a very short period of time ..

Citing the exclusion of gluten as the reason !!

I have grave doubts but given that the wealthy athletes have better chemists than the drug testing people .. we will never know !


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In 2010, Dr Igor Cetojevic performed a simple but unscientific test on Novak Djokovic. He asked him to hold a slice of bread against his stomach and raise his other arm. The arm felt weak. Djokovic went gluten free and introduced several mindfulness routines to his methods

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[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The first athlete in history to be banned for not taking drugs

This entire thing was a farce really, from start to end.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

This entire thing was a farce really, from start to end.

The gluten free claim ?




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[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Zizu

The gluten free claim ?




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That also

I don't know much about this guy but he sounds..interesting.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

That also

I don't know much about this guy but he sounds..interesting.

Sounds a bit dumb if he believes ‘that’ gluten test works imho

Claiming he felt weak as he held a loaf of bread sounds like he was probably smoking something


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[Withano]

I understand the anti-vaxxers pain. It’s like that time I needed a ticket to get in to thorpe park but I didn’t have a ticket. Nor was I about to get one. But i thought it was really rude that the rule existed and they didn’t even change it.

[Zizu]

Just realised that the guy at the very centre of this Covid controversy is called .. NoVac !!

( Novak)


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