Djokovic visa cancelled again - what now? Catherine and Matt in Melbourne!
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
With 3 days until the start of the Australian Open, we still do not know if Novak Djokovic will be cleared to play.
On Friday, he had his visa cancelled again, and again he appealed. Catherine and Matt were in Melbourne, with David in Solihull, UK, when the verdict dropped, and they bring us up-to-date, tell us about ramifications and the Melbourne Park setup, and talk about the latest tennis action on the court.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary |
| 0:04.8 | Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | Well folks, it is 11pm in Melbourne where you find myself, |
| 0:26.8 | Catholic and Vatican, Matt Roberts alongside me in our makeshift tennis podcast |
| 0:32.4 | towers for the next 20 days and it is midday, solely whole time, where we find David Law |
| 0:41.1 | and all of us have spent our evenings, slash morning, watching the work, the live stream of |
| 0:50.7 | the Australian Federal Court and Family Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, |
| 0:58.9 | which is not entertainment that I can highly recommend, but it has led us here to bring you |
| 1:08.0 | news of the developments in the saga of Novak, Jokovic. We had the news around about 6pm |
| 1:16.8 | tonight, which I'm sure is already extremely old news by the time that you're listening to this. |
| 1:22.7 | We've kind of accepted the fact that whatever time we record these podcasts that they will be |
| 1:29.1 | out of date to a certain extent by the time you listen to them. We're doing our very best to keep |
| 1:33.8 | up with events and keep you up to date as well, but things are so fast moving that there is a |
| 1:40.8 | limit on what we can do. Look, we had the news at 6pm, Friday evening, Melbourne time, |
| 1:47.7 | that immigration minister Alex Hawke, who was suggested to me as a follow on Twitter today, |
| 1:57.0 | which I politely declined. I really feel like Alex Hawke's role in my life is probably going |
| 2:02.9 | to be over after this week. I sure hope so. Yeah, it'll be a tennis podcast 2022 quiz |
| 2:10.5 | question. Who is Alex Hawke? And you would think that being in Melbourne, we would be |
| 2:16.9 | perfectly positioned and able to ready to receive the news of Novak, Jokovic, having his visa |
| 2:24.2 | cancelled again. We could not have been less ready. We were on the pavement walking up a hill with |
| 2:31.6 | very heavy shopping bags in the baking sun. Complaining about the heat. |
| 2:36.7 | I've contemplating ordering an Uber to take us about six blocks, which folks is what we ended |
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