The plot thickens. The general word here is that Tennis Australia mis-informed players that having a Covid 6 months prior to arrival (subject to sufficient proof) were grounds to be granted a visa. However, the Federal Government had previously written to Tennis Australia on 2 occasions to advise this was not the case. Listening to a couple of immigration lawyers here the best guess is that his visa will remain cancelled and he will get deported. However, he will have significant grounds to sue Tennis Australia and that puts the credibility of the whole tournament into question moving forward. If he does manage to get in people here are going to go bonkers, so either way there’s trouble coming it seems. If I were Craig Tiley (head of Tennis Australia) I would be drafting a new copy of my C.V.
Interesting and in many cases there are aspects the public don’t know at the time or at all - but if the above case is correct surely Djokovic’s people given they much publicised he was coming in on a medical exemption would have checked with the federal authorities who oversee border control - after all they have considerably more resource to check facts than the average traveling citizen. So still not a lot of sympathy from me.