yep. i know he's won so many times, but it's still heartbreaking
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 12 September 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
Really really would not have predicted straight sets, wow. But easy to underestimate the physical and mental toll of this whole year on Djokovic. First time I've really seen him run out of gas.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 12 September 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
What a prick
Djokovic almost thinks about it but stops just in time 😬 #USOpen pic.twitter.com/KnrTgbJJLt— Tennis GIFs 🎾🎥 (@tennis_gifs) September 12, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 September 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 12 September 2021 bookmarkflaglink
Del Potro softened Novak up for Murray at Wimbledon iirc.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 September 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
Into my veins
Djokovic is in tears at the changeover. 😥 #usopen pic.twitter.com/UcwP6PQHrS— Tennis GIFs 🎾🎥 (@tennis_gifs) September 12, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 September 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
only player to take a set off daniil: Botic van de Zandschulp
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 12 September 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
I love Medvedev’s “in my book, you’re the greatest player of all time” humble rag due to the unspoken “and I JUST BEAT YOU IN STRAIGHT SETS” that goes along with it
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Sunday, 12 September 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
Only thing that could make me happier is if Novak gets covid before the Aus Open and isn't allowed in the country.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 September 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
It's happening
BREAKING: Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says Novak Djokovic will NOT be allowed into Australia if he is not double vaccinated. "Our health advice is that when we open the borders everyone that comes to Australia will have to be double vaccinated," Mr Hawke told @RNBreakfast.— Stephanie Peatling (@srpeatling) October 19, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
👌
Novak Djokovic "probably won't" play the Australian Open in January over mandatory Covid vaccination rules, the world number one tennis player's father says, likening the restrictions to "blackmail" https://t.co/JJa8soGZCJ#AFPSports pic.twitter.com/p7cpVqN35O— AFP News Agency (@AFP) November 28, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 November 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
be funny when roland garros follows suit
― oscar bravo, Sunday, 28 November 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
👏 make 👏 tennis majors 👏 cyberbully 👏 djokovic 👏 into 👏 getting 👏 jabbed
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 28 November 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
Today I'm hoping Russia (sorry, Russian Tennis Federation) and Spain can engineer a result that gets Serbia eliminated at the group stage of the Davis Cup :)
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 28 November 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
If my sums are right, the Russians only need one game (i.e. 0-6 1-6) from the doubles vs Spain to qualify ahead of Serbia. They've already held serve at the start so... maybe take it easy now. (A Russian win = Spain go out, Serbia progress).
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 28 November 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
Karatsev/Rublev didn't read the script last night - beat Lopez/Granollers 46 62 64, putting the co-hosts out and allowing Serbia through.
I s'pose I should move this to the non-Slam tennis thread, as it's no longer adhering to the "laugh at Novak" theme :/
― Michael Jones, Monday, 29 November 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
If covid is a significant factor by Spring I wouldn't be surprised if RG follow but I expect only Australia will be hardline about this. This follows from their hard border approach from the start.
He should've been banned by the ATP for bringing the game into disrepute. Interesting to see how many more players are banned from Australia for this. Djoko can't be the only one.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
yeah I think the ATP said a few weeks ago the vaccination rate among players was only around 65%?
afaik medvedev still hasn't said whether he's vaccinated or not. tsitsipas and thiem only recently reluctantly agreed to get vaccinated after it became clear that it was going to be necessary for them to compete.
and a bunch of the US players are vocal trump supporters, so quite likely a few of them haven't gotten vaxxed either.
― Roz, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
Lol what a surprise
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jan/04/novak-djokovic-secures-medical-exemption-to-play-in-australian-open-tennis
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
this has turned into a massive clusterfuck and I am here for it
https://www.theage.com.au/national/visa-bungle-delays-novak-djokovic-s-entry-into-australia-20220105-p59m75.html
― Roz, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 14:08 (two years ago) link
Djoko being imprisoned in an Aussie jail would be best, yes.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
prison abolitionism*
*except for the djoker
― class project pat (m bison), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
Lol federal government and state government both trying to stick each other in it meanwhile Djokovic languishes in a room in the airport
― danzig, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
― class project pat (m bison), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 bookmarkflaglink
That's right
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
As Novak Djokovic's detention at Melbourne Airport extends beyond six hours, his father Srdan tells media, via @sunriseon7: 'They are holding my son captive. If they don't release him in the next half an hour, we will fight them on the street.'— Oliver Brown (@oliverbrown_tel) January 5, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
end police brutality*
*except for the djokovic family
― class project pat (m bison), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
He’s being deported
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
Breaking: Novak Djokovic's visa has been cancelled. He's been told to leave the country today, two sources confirmed to @theage. His Lawyers are in the process of appealing. He's not demonstrated to Border Force sufficient evidence for his exemption https://t.co/TM5BF0Gu80— Paul Sakkal (@paulsakkal) January 5, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
poochie had to go back to his home planet
― class project pat (m bison), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
wow / lol @ all this
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
wowwww
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
hahahahaha this has cheered me no end.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
On Djokovic, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has released a statement:"I told our Novak that the whole of Serbia is with him and that our bodies are doing everything to see that the harassment of the world's best tennis player is brought to an end immediately."— Maria Flannery (@mariaflan) January 5, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
yikes better hope austria doesn't get involved
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
This is the best early birthday present I could have imagined
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
You and me both. :D
I just woke up and my twitter TL is a mess lol
― Roz, Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
Novak’s dad Srdjan to Serbian outlets: “Tonight they can throw him in a dungeon, tomorrow they can put him in chains. The truth is he is like water and water paves its own path. Novak is the Spartacus of the new world which won’t tolerate injustice, colonialism and hypocrisy.”
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:19 (two years ago) link
trenchant social commentary
― symsymsym, Thursday, 6 January 2022 07:10 (two years ago) link
Rafael Nadal's full answer today on Djokovic's situation."From my point of view, the only thing that I can say is I believe in what the people who knows about medicine says, and if the people says that we need to get vaccinated, we need to get the vaccine." pic.twitter.com/n9nIjDhcfC— Tumaini Carayol (@tumcarayol) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
Proud to be an Australian
― hrep (H.P), Thursday, 6 January 2022 10:58 (two years ago) link
#BREAKING Australia will not immediately deport tennis world number one Novak Djokovic, a government lawyer tells a court hearing Thursday. The star remains in immigration detention pic.twitter.com/Zf70ZUwTVJ— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:17 (two years ago) link
We’ve got Djokovic supporters on the left and refugee advocates on the right. One Djokovic supporter just said to me “I feel so ignorant. I came here for him, and find out they’ve been locked up nine years. It’s so wrong.” pic.twitter.com/elBDkJAZEl— Cait Kelly (@cait__kelly) January 6, 2022
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 6 January 2022 11:26 (two years ago) link
I know this account does a lot of fake humour but...surely not
Gotta make sure that anyone who hasn’t read the Novak Djokovic bread story reads the Novak Djokovic bread story pic.twitter.com/gTVat8rpf8— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that's a famous story.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 6 January 2022 12:15 (two years ago) link
lol it’s not even the wackiest thing he believes in: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/05/novak-djokovic-psuedoscience-babble
― Roz, Thursday, 6 January 2022 12:30 (two years ago) link
20 grand slam titles, so who's to say etc.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link
Friday's Metro: "Prisoner cell Djok H" #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/TAxSZZYhBS— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
Lol
In Belgrade with the Djokovic family. Waiting for the result of the visa hearing, watch this space. 🇷🇸 pic.twitter.com/S8dACn9U3z— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) January 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 January 2022 21:02 (two years ago) link
:D
Please record the awkward moment when you tell them you’ve spent most of your career campaigning to have people from Eastern Europe deported.😉 https://t.co/rfFn1hdXlu— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) January 9, 2022
― Roz, Monday, 10 January 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
get his ass, andy
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 10 January 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/10/novak-djokovic-wins-appeal-against-decision-to-cancel-his-australian-visa
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 10 January 2022 09:40 (two years ago) link