{"id":17208,"date":"2022-01-06T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=177880"},"modified":"2022-01-06T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:59:14","slug":"australia-cancels-novak-djokovics-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/australia-cancels-novak-djokovics-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia cancels Novak Djokovic\u2019s visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Jan 6 (UNI) Tennis ace Novak Djokovic was denied entry in Australia as his visa been cancelled after the world no 1 failed to meet the entry rules.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tweeted: \u201cDjokovic\u2019s visa has been cancelled. Rules are rules, especially when it comes to our borders. No one is above these rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur strong border policies have been critical to Australia having one of the lowest death rates in the world from Covid, we are continuing to be vigilant,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open defending champion announced on Tuesday that he will be heading to Australia to participate in the season\u2019s first grand slam with an exemption permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNon-citizens who do not hold a valid visa on entry or who have had their visa cancelled will be detained and removed from Australia,\u201d the Australian Border Force (ABF) was quoted as saying by BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison earlier said that \u201cthere should be no special rules\u201d for Djokovic after the Serbian got Covid-19 vaccination \u201cexemption permission\u201d to compete at the upcoming grand slam tournament.<\/p>\n<p>UNI BAV MR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Jan 6 (UNI) Tennis ace Novak Djokovic was denied entry in Australia as his visa been cancelled after the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":37954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-17208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-novak-djokovic"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}