AUSTRALIAN OPEN – Novak Djokovic deprived of Australia for three years? The door is not fully closed

Novak Djokovic lost big this week. And this may just be the beginning. Forced to leave Australia on Sunday without having been able to play a single match and after losing his legal battle, the world number 1 finds himself faced with an uncertainty that he surely did not envisage. And possible long-term repercussions for his career. One question is indeed unanswered: will he be able to return to Australia next year? Because today there is a real doubt after his highly publicized expulsion from the country.

Under Australian law, a visa cancellation is accompanied by a three-year inadmissibility. It’s automatic. Which would deprive the man who has won the Australian Open nine times of trips to Melbourne for the 2023, 2024 and probably 2025 editions. For a 34-year-old champion eager to make tennis history by accumulating the most Grand Slam possible, the blow would be tough. However, Djoko received a reason for hope from Australia this Sunday evening. From Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minister who nevertheless worked to see the Serb expelled.

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They have the opportunity to return under the right circumstances

The former Minister of Immigration in 2013 and 2014 opened the door to a possible return for next year on “2GB radio”. “I’m not going to say anything that would prevent the Minister from making the decisions he has to make. This stretches over a period of three years, but they have the option of returning under the right circumstances, and it will be considered at that time.“, slipped the Australian Prime Minister, taken up by the newspaper The Age

A statement can change a lot of things. There are indeed possible exceptions to escape this three-year visa ban rule. Compelling reasons can be put forward, or a little lighter. But it is not won in advance.

In an interview with the Today Show to start the week in Australia, Karen Andrews, the Australian Minister of the Interior, was thus much more firm when it came to discussing the situation of the Serb. “His visa was canceled by Minister Hawke. And this cancellation was confirmed by the Federal Court, so following this he will be prohibited from entering the country for three years. ” Novak Djokovic now knows that there is however a chance to circumvent this law. But his last experience will push him to be cautious. Because he also knows now that immigration rules should not be taken lightly. in Australia.

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