Novak Djokovic’s entry to the Australian Open has been refused. It is also about his vaccination status, about which the Serb keeps a big secret. And otherwise he polarizes.
Novak Djokovic is one of the most brilliant tennis players on the planet, but his sporting achievements are completely in the background in the current discussion about him – so shortly before the start of the Australian Open. Because the Serbs are threatened with extinction even before the tournament starts.
Djokovic was turned away when trying to enter Australia. The Australian border guard announced. “Non-citizens who do not have a valid visa upon entry or whose visa has been canceled will be detained and expelled from Australia,” the statement said. Djokovic is expected to be flown out on Thursday, but his lawyers have appealed, according to the newspaper “The Age”.
The fuss about exemption
Previously, there had been a fuss about an exemption from the probably unvaccinated tennis superstar. As “The Age” reported, the Serb landed shortly before midnight in the Australian metropolis and tried to enter with a visa that does not allow medical exemptions for unvaccinated people.
The then contacted authorities of the state of Victoria refused to support the world number one. Djokovic is said to have been isolated in a room in the early morning hours of Thursday (local time in Melbourne) – without permission to use his smartphone. The Australian border protection agency emphasized that the superstar had access to his smartphone. In the end, his entry was stopped.
But who is the top athlete who is currently causing so much discussion outside of the tennis court? t-online introduces the man with a penchant for esotericism.
Djokovic and the tendency towards esotericism
The Australian Open without the three-time defending champion? A, as of now, very likely scenario. It would be the first Grand Slam tournament without the Serbs since the US Open 2017. A possible participation or cancellation of Djokovic at the first big season highlight of the year has been discussed for weeks, his cancellation at the ATP Cup, which is also held in Melbourne, fueled any speculation continue on.
Even if Djokovic has not yet made a clear statement about his current vaccination status, the assumption is that he continues to reject it – despite or precisely because of his own, apparently harmless infection in summer 2020.
It is well known that Djokovic also has a penchant for esotericism. After winning the French Open in 2016, he ended his collaboration with his previous coach Boris Becker and brought the former tennis player and Pepe Imaz, smiled at as a “cuddle guru”, into his team. Imaz relied on a philosophy of life under the motto “Love and Peace”. The Spaniard still runs his tennis academy under this motto.
Separation from Imaz – but the friendship remained
The central element in Imaz’s teaching was the power of embracing – if by chance no human person was present, a stuffed animal would do. Djokovic became a supporter of his methodology, but separated from Imaz after two years due to tensions within the coaching team and never-ending failure. The friendship stayed.
Pepe Imaz: The “tennis guru” was part of Novak Djokovic’s team for two years. (Source: PanoramiC / imago images)
And the end of the collaboration did not mean that Djokovic had finished with esotericism. In fact, he had only just started and was now self-taught. “Nole” fed more and more supposed knowledge from pseudoscientific publications and also began to share crude messages himself. In 2020 he preached to his followers that the power of prayer could supposedly turn “poisonous” water into healing water.
The corona pandemic that broke out in spring 2020 did not slow down Djokovic either. Instead, he posited: “Personally, I am against vaccinations. I don’t want someone forcing me to take a vaccine in order to travel.”
Criticism of Djokovic’s Adria Tour 2020
In protest about the interrupted ATP tour, he organized the controversially discussed Adria Tour with tennis matches and extravagant parties in various cities in the former Yugoslavia. During one of these nights he apparently infected himself with the virus. If his first test was still positive, a second smear, taken ten days later, was negative.
Just as Djokovic still leaves the public in the dark about his possible infection, he also deals with his vaccination status. Questions as to whether he categorically excludes a vaccination, cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or whether he has already been vaccinated, the tennis star consistently throws down with the reference to his privacy.
Novak Djokovic: The tennis star at a “Gibonni” concert during his controversial Adria Tour in June 2020. (Source: Pixsell / imago images)
With what reason he should have received a medical exemption for the Australian Open is unclear. An explanation could, however, spearhead the esoteric cabinet of absurdities of the “Djoker”. Finally there is the “pyramid of the sun” in the Bosnian Visoko.
The healing mountain
What’s behind it? The Bosnian-American businessman and pseudo-archaeologist Semir Osmanagic claims that Mount Pljesevica is in truth a man-made pyramid that is tens of thousands of years old and exudes healing powers that strengthen the human immune system. Meditation on the mountain with hand contact to the mountain – or do you believe Osmanagic: Pyramidenstein – makes you immune to a disease with Covid-19 in the long term.
Osmanagic’s theses are all categorically rejected by leading scientists, be they archaeologists or medical professionals, and labeled as nonsense – but this does not prevent the hobby scientist, who has made his fortune as a building contractor, from marketing the mountain in Visoko for tourism. One of his most loyal visitors: Novak Djokovic.
The world number one in tennis called the area around the mountain “heaven on earth” and travels to Visoko for “energetic charging” before every important tournament. The “Djoker” attributed his victory in the sand court Grand Slam Roland Garros 2021 to his previous visit to Bosnia. Even before he left for Melbourne, he is said to have returned to Visoko for a meditation excursion.
The person Novak Djokovic, he polarizes. More than as an athlete.
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