Fortunately, perhaps, there is no such thing as an official licence to belong among the big four tournaments. The grand slam is an overhang from when tennis belonged to Great Britain, the US, France and Australia. Unfortunately, this also means each tournament’s continuing relevance rests on its reputation among players, spectators and other interests. The reputation of the Australian Open has, in one week, chuntered several rungs downwards.
It’s hard even to think of the men’s event without queasiness. Bernard Tomic has done it a favour by bowing out in the preliminary stages,Too nauseated to watch the tournament? For some it’s a burning question of how to boycott an event they weren’t going to watch anyway. Whichever side of the Djokovic Great Divide they inhabit, they feel voiceless and disgusted.
The more telling boycott, in coming years, will be when international players decide they can’t trust this event to be properly run or this country to have a consistent, credible immigration process. What makes a grand slam is the participants’ willingness to trust the competence and integrity of the organisers. Whether they support Djokovic’s vaccine stance and his tactical ploys or not, such confidence has been sundered by the past week.
can we for a moment forget Djoker and enjoy the event - AO is not about 1 person - there are loads of players putting their heart in the event
Also wonder if AustralianOpen, which started all this by weirdly inviting a famously anti/unvaxxed athlete into famously must-be-vaccinated Australia, could now end it, and finally honor their own country’s Covid stance, by dis-inviting Djokovic to AusOpen? Cc tiley
The lawyers will be getting MOM out to give Scomo a serve
TA wanted Djockovic there at all costs. That's where all this started. He always made his position clear. ABF then treated him poorly & it went down from there. Djockovic, Aus government have all played their part in this fiasco. But TA started it all.
Sack them all and vote them all out
They’ll be given Order of Australia medals and “appointments”.
Good article. I love Tennis but couldn’t stomach watching the Aus Open last year when 40,000 Australians couldn’t get back into their own Country but Tennis players and entourage could and now this drama that really should never got to this.
They should have resigned a week ago.
Never mind about the Prime Minister and Immigration Minister
Novak is not 🅿️
What nonsense. Freedom of movement is a basic human right and we should be doing everything we can to affirm it after the shameful events of the last two years. Ask PengShuai why she’s not playing this year. CraigTiley does a great job organising AustralianOpen. Enjoy AO2022!
Total useless mob.
That's ridiculous.
For once I agree with smh
If so-called journalists had any decency and self-respect, they'd quit their jobs and disappear from public view. But they don't, won't, and indeed talk to the mindset of the resentful and envious populace.
ScottMorrisonMP Should resign also
They’re a fucking TENNIS association, Malcolm. Get a grip.
A sense of reality will be blurred while the 💰 profits float. They’re just like a pack of hyenas carving out the 💴. DjokovicOut
When tennis was about fit young people naturally spending free time outdoors it was relevant to Aus from the 40s to 80s. It's now mostly about having a crazily obsessed parent. It is rightly going the way of rugby in Australia. Nobody cares.
A very good read DjokerNole bringing everyone down
Tiley single handed turned the AO into one of the world’s favourite grand slams and turned a profit…profiting Australia and Melbourne immensely! Your option stinks! Tiley had nothing to do with the political shambles this has turned into! So pee right off with your ‘opinion’🙄😡
Anyone investigating this 👇 The Australian Open's biosecurity manager has reportedly left his position just weeks out from the first grand slam of the year.
TennisAustralia has shown they have no regard for their own staff, players whom are vaccinated and the fans. To allow Djokovic to play shows all they care about is the money. Go home DjokerNole …..
The Government is running the clock on this decision. I wonder if it’s to keep him in Melbourne or runs DjokerNole out of time to be able to appeal?
Let Djokovic go back, let Tiley go home
Yes. CraigTiley should step down.
Why would they? If there's anything the last few years of politics etc. around the world has taught us that regardless of how bad you are at your job you just need to post through it and act like everything is fine.
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