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The Tennis Podcast

Djokovic detained in Australia

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Catherine and Matt are joined by Simon Briggs to discuss the events which led to Novak Djokovic being detained in an immigration hotel while waiting a decision on his deportation from Australia, the way in which nobody comes out of this situation looking good, how the saga might develop, and what it says about Djokovic that this has happened to him.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri.

0:03.1

And Matt's Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.

0:06.4

This is Yannick Noah. Greetings from Sunny Southampton.

0:09.5

This is Forbese with Terry Ate and brand new granddaughter,

0:13.4

Ariavila Timz. And like you, we all listen to the tennis podcast.

0:18.3

All thanks very much to Mark Forbes for our intro there. He's one of our friends of the tennis podcast,

0:36.0

Kitman Forbese. He is on Twitter. We love Mark. Thank you very much, Mark, for your support.

0:41.6

And for becoming a friend of the tennis podcast, he might be surprised, Mark,

0:46.2

to be hearing his intro so soon because we weren't scheduled to be coming to you

0:51.4

with this supplementary emergency podcast. But you might have noticed that things have been

0:58.2

happening in the tennis world in just sort of the world over the past 48 hours.

1:05.6

seismic seismic things. As we come to you now, Novak Djokovic is currently being detained

1:13.7

in a government hotel in Melbourne scheduled to be deported, pending an injunction hearing filed by

1:23.4

his lawyers, which is scheduled for Monday morning, Melbourne time. Now, I'm sure a lot of you will

1:30.4

know some all a few of the details of what's unfolded over the last 48 hours. I'm going to try and talk

1:37.9

you through all the important aspects of it because we want to get the facts right. I'll also try

1:43.2

not to bore you as far as possible. We've got Matt on the show. We've also got Simon Briggs,

1:50.0

Novak Djokovic and tennis politics correspondent. So we're very well furnished for this emergency

1:56.6

podcast. So last we discussed Novak Djokovic and his potential participation in this Australia

2:03.8

open, which we've known for a while would have a mandatory vaccination policy was he was being

2:08.7

cagey about the whole affair. We know that he has had publicly anti-vax stances in the past. He

2:16.2

wouldn't be drawn though on whether he would be vaccinated and would be participating in this

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