{"id":162427,"date":"2021-11-19T23:54:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T00:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=162427"},"modified":"2021-11-20T03:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T03:01:18","slug":"unvaxxed-players-shut-out-of-aussie-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=162427","title":{"rendered":"Unvaxxed players shut out of Aussie Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Open<\/a> has officially confirmed that all participants must be fully vaccinated to compete in next year' tournament.<\/p>\n

"There's a lot of speculation about vaccination and just to be really clear, when the Premier announced that everyone on site … will need to be vaccinated … we made that clear to the playing group," tournament boss Craig Tiley said.<\/p>\n

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This included world number on Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tiley said that the Serbian superstar "has said that he views this as a private matter for him.<\/p>\n

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"We would love to see Novak here, he knows that he'll have to be vaccinated to play here."<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Scott Morrison had previously opened the door for un-vaccinated players to be allowed in via some sort of loophole<\/a>, only for that suggestion to be immediately struck down by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.<\/p>\n

"There needs to be a little bit of flexibility so we can live with the virus," Morrison said last month.<\/p>\n

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But it was only a couple of hours later that Andrews responded.<\/p>\n

"On behalf of every vaccinated Victorian who has done the right thing – my goverment will not be applying for an exemption for any unvaccinated player," he said.<\/p>\n

"What I want to make very clear is that the state of Victoria will not be applying for any exemptions for unvaccinated players."<\/p>\n

With that story officially put to bed, the tournament organisers can now focus on the event itself, which starts on January 17.<\/p>\n

Sports fans across Victoria were buoyed by the news earlier this week that both the Open and the Boxing Day Test would be allowed to operate with full capacity crowds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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