Olympic champion Alexander Zverev kept a low profile in an immigration thriller about world number one Novak Djokovic. ,It would have helped if he was vaccinated at the end of the day“,” Zverev said after his ATP Cup match against Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassim in Sydney on Thursday. But they’re exempt, so there must be a reason for it. There are five other professionals who got the exception, but we don’t know their names.”

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The very likely unconvinced Djokovic had traveled to Australia with a highly controversial medical exemption and landed in Melbourne late Wednesday evening (local time). He was denied entry by Australian Border Protection Officers because he had not presented any suitable evidence of meeting the entry requirements. Djokovic has filed a lawsuit a Melbourne court is seeking to decide on Monday. The Australian Open will start a week later.

,It is a Grand Slam tournament that he has won nine times. would be good for tennis if it was there” said Zverev. But rules are rules. I’ll never say a bad word about Novak in my life, but I don’t know enough details to be able to defend him.”

Germany redeems bankruptcy in ATP Cup opening round

Zverev had missed out on an ATP Cup semi-final clash with the German men’s tennis men. The team lost to Canada in Sydney on Thursday and suffered a second defeat. preliminary round-off The match was pre-determined as Great Britain registered a 2–1 win against the United States in the first game of the day. Because Germany was initially defeated by the British, a victory against Canada would not be enough to move forward as there is poor direct comparison with Great Britain. The loss against Canada was already settled after two singles. Despite a strong performance against Denis Shapovalov after Jan-Lenard Struff lost 6:7 (5:7), 6:4, 3:6 at the start, Zverev was defeated in top individual Felix Auger 4:6, 6:4. also had to be defeated. Aliasime, 3:6 beaten. It was the first defeat of the new year for the German number one.