SYDNEY (REUTERS) – World No. 1 Novak Djokovic was named on the official entry listing for subsequent 12 months’s Australian Open on Wednesday (Dec 8) however 23-times Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams was absent.
Djokovic has declined to reveal his vaccination standing regardless of all gamers, officers, workers and followers on the Jan 17-30 event at Melbourne Park needing to be inoculated towards Covid-19.
Native media experiences mentioned that everybody on the entry listing wanted to be vaccinated or have a medical exemption. Tennis Australia didn’t instantly reply to a request for affirmation of that rule.
Djokovic, who shall be bidding for a document twenty first Grand Slam males’s singles title if he performs on the event, mentioned final week that he can be making a call “very quickly” about travelling to Australia.
The 34-year-old was additionally named within the Serbia staff for the ATP Cup, which shall be held in Sydney in early January, when that was launched on Tuesday.
To play in Sydney with out being vaccinated, the state authorities must apply for an exemption for Djokovic and he must bear 14 days quarantine upon arrival.
Williams, who received the final of her seven Australian Open titles in 2017, had an injury-disrupted season and has not performed since she limped out of her first-round match at Wimbledon in June as a result of leg harm.
Match organiser Craig Tiley mentioned final month that the 40-year-old American, who wants another Grand Slam title to match Margaret Courtroom’s document of 24, can be enjoying at Melbourne Park.
After her semi-final loss to Naomi Osaka at this 12 months’s Australian Open, Williams paused for a second and put her hand on her coronary heart as she left Rod Laver Area to a standing ovation, later tearfully reducing brief a information convention.
Her title was the obvious omission from the sector with 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer having already confirmed that he would skip the occasion as he recovers from one other spherical of knee surgical procedures.
