Men's world number one Novak Djokovic has hit back at criticism of his letter to Australian Open chief Craig Tiley in which he suggested easing of quarantine restrictions, saying his good intentions were "misconstrued".
and having players in hard quarantine moved to "private houses with tennis courts", drawing a backlash from Australians."My good intentions for my fellow competitors in Melbourne have been misconstrued as being selfish, difficult and ungrateful," the Serbian, who is isolating in Adelaide along with other top players, said in a lengthy statement.
Tennis coach Daniel Vallverdu told Reuters that players in hard quarantine should get preferential treatment from organisers such as prime practice times and matches scheduled in the cooler hours of the day. Djokovic, who last year quit as the ATP Players Council chief to launch a breakaway players body, won a record eighth Australian Open title in Melbourne in 2020.Watch
Backtrack all he wants the truth is he made demands like the petulant child he has always been. He had always been a bad sport and now the world has seen how disgusting he is.
go home ,,and stay there,,,if you don,t like here, you are. free to live. mike,,,rules are rules,and nobody,s different,,expecialy people that should set an exemple,,,
Seems he's just worried about the inevitable boo-ing he will receive from the crowd nonapology
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Yeah.. to be fair.. you're a guy with a platform who uses that platform to spread antivaxination information. So.. you kind of deserve to be scolded. Stay in your lane.
Has he been able to organise anyone to show Tomic's partner how to wash her hair yet? She is distressed because she doesn't know how to do it. And Dan Andrews refuses to organise houses in Toorak with tennis courts. My heart bleeds for them.
You get no privileges during covid, these players are coming from. Some of the worst hit countries and if your watching the news its these stupid privileged fuckers who flaunt the rules to keep them safe. Dont like it go home
Not the joker, just a joke.
Djocovid is known to be a selfish attention seeker.
Just FRO DjokerNole fed up of your 💩💩 AusOpen
Bunch of self important Prima Donnas.
Here we go. Misconstrued, misquoted, misunderstood blah blah blah
OMFG! What a narcissist. No one will believe its all about others mate because we have seen your bad behaviour too many times.
Wait didn't Djokovic already get Corona and die and everone at his party contracted it and die and all their immediate family and thier contacts died as well?
DjokerNole that should be the thought before demands were made. Know your audience! abcmelbourne AustralianOpen
Nope, your intentions were read and you're now recoiling.
Rubbish you had a pathetic winge. Not as bad as the cow complaining that she had to was her own hair. Many Victorians are out of work because of the pandemic yet they have given tennis players the opportunity to play and earn an income stop your pathetic bitching
Laughable attempt at an apology if you can even call it that 🙄
That was no apology, just sayin'.
HE SAYS THIS EVERY TIME!!
Too little too late
Djokovic doesn't yet understand why every successful person runs away from Australia as soon as they can. If he did, there would be no such questions.
Novak has lost all right to comment on anything pandemic related. Also: nothing misconstrued about it.
Yea nah...
'None of us ever questioned 14 days of quarantine despite what is being said by media outlets.' - DjokerNole completely untrue. See PutintsevaYulia’s drivel
He also claimed he had the best intentions organising the Adria Tour in June which lead to a covid cluster. And has said he would do it again. He is an idiot.
He hosted a super spreader event, and then wants to say his request to know better than the experts and ease restrictions is him being selfless? gtfoh.
Mmmm, yeah, right! LOL.
Please change the text on screen feed. It was not an apology.
Yeah, no they weren’t.
Oz media again in the gutter They used to attack McEnroe, now Djokovic is the Bad guy Our media likes soft spoken boys manufacturing today's 'sportsmen' which stick to cliches ridden scripts and presented with soft feminine voices But then they also like spoilt brats like Kyrgios
All this proves is that the Australian media are full of it.
it looks like the jok has learned little from his dose of covid, sorry mate we are dinkum out here.
Is it just my imagination or are the petulant prima donnas doing all the whining about restrictions in place to protect our citizens from Coid 19 also come from countries where the virus has killed tens of thousands and is out of control. France 70k, Spain 54k, Italy 83k 👎
Novak is a obviously diva...🙄
AntiVaxx. Hosts and promotes Covid Super Spreader Events. Got Covid. Gave many other Covid. His opinion on HQ is not needed. The guy is irrelevant. NovaxxJoCovid
Go on, Tell us more Novak?
Pathetic, professional sport is riddled with spoilt brats and needy wannabes.
Oh please!
Oh! your ‘good intentions’? Give me a break. 🤣You were being totally unreasonable and selfish. When you decided to play in this tournament during this global pendemic, you should have known better what to expect in this country, where covid has been well managed.
Some have lost respect and some have gained respect on how they are handling this. I would recommend for those that are complaining to go back to toilet training
Understood exactly what he said. Rules for one and Rules for others. You are special so are entitled to possibly spread the virus to your coach and whoever gets in the way of your needs. You knew the rules we didn’t abide by our health advice for you to ignore it
They are all sorry when things don't go how they want. Self entitled asses.
Cram it with walnuts, Novak.
Authorities over react and treat tennis pros like crap. Before authorities under react and neglect aged care ?
Nope
He wouldn’t know a good “intention” if it bit him on the arse
I really wish this man wasn’t in our country. AusOpen
Nah, they are a prat.
I’m not convinced.
He was invited to win a major tennis tournament. That's his job. He wants to win. You salty haters can't understand it. Blame the organisers for having the tournament
Take one look at the state of the countries these tennis players come from re Coroanvirus. This tells you exactly why we're enforcing these restrictions.
The hillbillies are all out.Yep the typical one opinion 2GB listening,hateful and stupid sheep that all say the same thing.I bet not one of you in here will go and watch the tennis , you can tell by the way you all look
Media! Typical. I read your list and found it reasonable just not possible!
*cries from ivory tower* uwu I'm sowwy.
Piss off super spreader.
No one misconstrued anything buddy. Selfish entitled brat it seems
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To be fair to players, media loves a beat-up and attacking manufactured villains like vultures.
Again? Seems you'll never learn DjokerNole TheJokerorTheJoke AustralianOpen TennisAustralian & ThatStoopidYarpy auspol AusOpinion GuardianAus abcnews DjokerNole GoHome
I hope he gets booed out of the tournament
Just like hitting a lines woman with a ball, I’m sure she misconstrued your intent there.
No they haven't, you're an entitled anti-vaxxer. bellend.
They weren't misconstrued, we knew exactly what he meant: Tennis players should get preferential treatment because they're tennis players, even if it creates a risk to public health.
No they haven’t !
“easing of quarantine restrictions, his good intentions” lets check that with a frontline covid battlefield health worker, nurse or doctor DjokerNole I’ll offer them a house with a tennis court and an appointment with a hairdresser in exchange for lives TennisBubble AO2021
There no doubt his intentions were well placed but the issue like many of the players is they come from countries where covid riff and not being controlled.
I don’t think any of us misconstrued his intent. We understood him perfectly well.
Haha, no they did not. Try again. Or maybe just take your duck-faced girlfriend home
No one except Tennis Australia wanted these idiots here. Why are they here
He is finding out what tall poppy slayers Aussies are
The old 'I'm sorry you feel that way' bollocks non-apology.
Give the guy a break!
Because there’s a bunch of folks out there with a tennis court that would love to have houseguests (presumably in the pool room) or move out for some sports people.
This bloke is a super spreader who hits a little yellow ball. Doesn't require intelligence.
Fuck off Novak
Tennis tour is like show business. We always need a villain.
Keeps happening to Nole. He can’t catch a break. Wonder why? 🧐
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Really? Um.....I don’t think so.
You can’t misconstrue this, go home the lot of you! And take tomics gf with you
No they haven’t
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