MELBOURNE, Jan 10 — The day started with a website crash and ended with the stunning release of the world’s number one tennis player into Australia after nearly five days of detention.
It was perhaps a fitting twist in a saga that has rolled on since Wednesday, with the Serbian holed up in a notorious Melbourne immigration detention centre on Covid-19 health grounds rather than training for a record 21st Grand Slam. Outside Melbourne’s federal court, dozens of Djokovic fans and anti-vaccine mandate protesters waved flags and placards as journalists scrambled to report on the hearing.
“He deserves 5-star accom and his private chef now!” read one placard held aloft by a Djokovic supporter outside the former Park hotel, where the player was held.
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