A PCR test with different results, travel discrepancies and Tennis Australia bending its rules are all issues that have surfaced since the Serb landed in Melbourne
The world No 1 was given permission to play in Melbourne by Tennis Australia and the state authorities in Victoria only after providing a document showing he had a positive test for Covid on 16 December. In the eyes of their medical panels – although not the Australian government’s – that made him eligible for a medical exemption, which meant Djokovic did not have to quarantine for 14 days after arriving in Australia.
