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Australian Open director expects up to 95% of players to be vaccinated by January

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Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley expects up to 95% of professional players will be vaccinated against Covid19 by the time of the Grand Slam in January but is unsure whether Novak Djokovic will be among them.

Tiley said Victoria state's strict vaccination mandate had motivated players to get their shots before Melbourne Park, where fans and staff will also be banned if unvaccinated.

"Today more than 85% are ," Tiley said of professional players on local radio station SEN on Thursday."We think by the time we get to January it will be between 90–95% vaccinated because if you’re not, you cannot play." "And so it should be, because there shouldn’t be any preferential treatment coming into the state compared to what the regular community is going through," he said.

"One of them is going to surpass the other and I don’t think Novak would want to leave that ... to someone else."

 

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