'Djokovic disaster' haunts Australian Open first day

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Deported defending champion Novak Djokovic was thousands of miles away when the Australian Open began on Monday, but his brooding

People peer at an image of Serbia’s Novak Djokovic. William WEST/AFP

Under overcast skies, security guards checked vaccine passports as masked ticketholders scanned a QR code and shuffled through the turnstiles.But there was still a buzz in the air as people made their way along the bank of the Yarra River and onto the bright blue carpeted reception area, to the jaunty sound of a flamboyantly dressed trombone-and-drum two-piece band.

– ‘They did the right thing’ -Melbourne resident Simon Overton said he was glad the controversy was over and the focus could get back to tennis.

 

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