{"id":17228,"date":"2022-01-17T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T13:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=182246"},"modified":"2022-01-17T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T13:47:24","slug":"you-are-our-champion-serbs-welcome-novak-djokovic-after-australia-deports-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/you-are-our-champion-serbs-welcome-novak-djokovic-after-australia-deports-him\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou are our champion,\u201d Serbs welcome Novak Djokovic after Australia deports him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having a tussle with Australian authorities, World\u2019s no. 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic has finally arrived in his homeland on Monday after Australia deported him. His visa was rejected by the Australian courts as the player was not vaccinated against COVID-19. Hence, shattering his dreams to win the title of record 21st Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>While the 34-year-old came back to Serbia, he finds supporters chanting, \u201cYou are our champion\u201d, waving the country\u2019s flag outside the Belgrade airport.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Deported tennis star <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NovakDjokovic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NovakDjokovic<\/a> met by supporters as he arrives at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dubai?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dubai<\/a> airport in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAE<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nlEHzuNlfH\">pic.twitter.com\/nlEHzuNlfH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Murphy (@dan_murphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dan_murphy\/status\/1482931758068903941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic has a record of winning nine titles of the Australia Open. He is also levelling with Rafael Nadal and Rodger Federer on 20 titles.<\/p>\n<p>Before starting his quest for another Melbourne Park Major, he had taken flight to Dubai the Belgrade after getting detained twice in a hotel with Asylum-seekers and then suddenly was ruled out of the Australia Open.<\/p>\n<p>Alek Drakoo, a local member of the Serbian community who also planned to watch him play said that 100% Australian Open has lost its dignity, whosoever wins now doesn\u2019t matter as Djokovic will always remain no. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s decision was tuned with the Australian People\u2019s opinion because of Djokovic\u2019s stand regarding vaccination, but the authorities were denounced for not fixing the conflict beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the trouble that Djokovic went through, he still respects the court\u2019s decision and said that he was uncomfortable when everyone was focusing on him for the past few weeks, but now hopes that everyone focuses upon the game and the Tournament which he loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After arriving back in his homeland, Novak Djokovic was welcomed by Serbian fans who were saying \u201cYou are our champion\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":37974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2964,203],"class_list":["post-17228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-open-2022","tag-novak-djokovic"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}