Updated:01/31/2022 02:38h
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By hierarchy, the Australian Open bears the name of Novak Djokovic. Absolute owner of the winners of the tournament, with nine victories, the Serbian has turned the Rod Laver Arena into his private garden. Nine titles in a row that elevate him as the most dominant player on the hard court. The land belongs to Nadal, the grass belongs to Federer and the cement belongs to Djokovic. A strange passenger for tennis and devastating for humanity, the Covid, has struck down the aspirations of the Serbian, whose approach to the Australian Open 2022 involves a string of disadvantages. He does not lift a hypothetical tenth trophy, he is left without the record of 21 Grand Slam that Nadal now owns and it is likely that he could lose the world number one against Daniil Medvedev.
The firmness of the Australian government, its respect for the guarantee of the laws according to which we are all equal before justice, have brought down Djokovic as the first tennis player in the world in a devastating January for him. His legitimate position regarding vaccines (he has not been immunized against the virus) collided with the lies he spread to circumvent the rules of coexistence in a country that adopted very severe measures to limit the pandemic. His image has therefore been very damaged and his sporting future, very compromised depending on which territories if he does not get vaccinated.
Expelled from Australia, the tournament has been held without his first favorite. And it’s all bad news for Djokovic, who extolled Nadal’s honor on his social media. «Congratulations to Nadal for his 21 Grand Slam. Always an impressive fighting spirit with which he has prevailed once again.
But the destruction for the Balkan tennis player is of biblical dimensions. Although Novak Djokovic will still be world number one this Monday, Daniil Medvedev, Despite falling in the final of the Australian Open against Nadal, he can take the throne from him as of February 21 if certain circumstances arise, some marked by the Serb’s relationship with Covid. It depends on Djokovic’s result in the Dubai tournament and what Medvedev does in Acapulco.
Since February, Medvedev can get on the throne. This is so because in 2021 both the ATP Cup and the Australian Open were held in February, and it will not be until the day of its start when Djokovic’s points are subtracted, 2,000 for not defending his crown in Melbourne and 140 for the Cup. ATP, and the Russian, who will also lose about 500 by being champion of the team tournament last year.
Logically, Medvedev should soon appear at the top of the lists.
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