{"id":17280,"date":"2022-02-03T13:07:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=189053"},"modified":"2022-02-03T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:37:54","slug":"serbian-officials-state-novak-djokovics-covid-19-tests-were-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/serbian-officials-state-novak-djokovics-covid-19-tests-were-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian Officials state, Novak Djokovic\u2019s COVID-19 tests were legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia\u2019s prosecutor office has stated that tennis player Novak Djokovic\u2019s COVID-19 tests were legal and no proof indicates that those tests were falsified, according to an inquiry by the country\u2019s health ministry, reports\u00a0<em>Agence France-Presse.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian 20-times Grand Slam champion was deported from Australia following his visa cancellation twice. The player was eying to defend his 21st Grand Slam in the Australian Open but the losing bid in court for appearing at the first Grand Slam of the year crushed his dreams of his 21st major that Rafael Nadal clinched in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Serbian authorities said on Wednesday after a string of media reports questioned the authenticity of the documents that the COVID-19 tests submitted to Australian officials were legal.<\/p>\n<p>Nine times Australian Open champion Novak couldn\u2019t appear at the tournament reasoned COVID-19 vaccination controversy despite getting a medical exemption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was established that Novak Djokovic was tested multiple times and the\u2026test results from December 16 and December 22 were valid,\u201d asserted the statement from the office.<\/p>\n<p>BBC earlier had publicized a report that stated \u201cdoubt\u201d about the tests after which, the statement was released to support Djokovic\u2019s tests documents but they have not answered directly to the allegations imposed by BBC or any other.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal gained the No. 5 spot from 6, after winning the Australian Open 2022 title the previous week in Melbourne defeating World No. 2 Russia\u2019s Daniil Medvedev while Djokovic is still at top of the ATP Singles rankings for a record of 358 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded Serb was deported from Australia following vaccination controversy and couldn\u2019t appear at the first Grand Slam of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689,1096,1082,690,203,336],"class_list":["post-17280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-covid-19-vaccination","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-grand-slams","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}