Novak Djokovic, the top-ranked men’s tennis player, will miss next week's Miami Open after U.S. officials denied him a vaccination exemption
due due to travel restrictions requiring international visitors to be vaccinated — Djokovic will once again miss a high-profile tournament due to his anti-vax stance.
“We tried to get Novak Djokovic to be allowed to get an exemption, but that wasn’t able to happen,” tournament director James Blake said in“Obviously, we’re one of the premier tournaments in the world, we’d like to have the best players that can play. We did all that we could. We tried to talk to the government, but that’s out of our hands.”
Djokovic’s exemption was denied despite lobbying on his behalf by Florida senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott and Governor Ron DeSantis, who previously stated he would “run a boat from the Bahamas” for Djokovic in order for him to attend the Miami Open,
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