Tennis star Novak Djokovic has left Australia without competing in the Australian Open subsequent to losing a legal action against a choice denying his visa for the subsequent time. Djokovic left on an Emirates flight from Melbourne on Sunday, headed for Dubai.


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In a virtual hearing prior on Sunday, three Federal Court judges consistently excused Djokovic's application to upset the migration ,minister choice to drop his visa, yet didn't distribute purposes behind the decision.


The defending Champion was suppose to play on the Monday night in Melbourne, Australia. The World No.1 was targeting his 21st Grand Slam Title.


The prominent, off-the-court adventure setting probably tennis' greatest star in opposition to Australia's Government and government health authorities has dominated the lead-up to the year's first tennis Grand Slam.


Djokovic said in a statement " extremely disappointed" by the decision of the court and will co-operate with officials.


"I am uncomfortable that the focus of the past weeks has been on me and I hope that we can all now focus on the game and tournament I love, I would like to wish the players, tournament officials, staff, volunteers and fans all the best for the tournament," Djokovic said in a statement.


Immigration  Minister Alex Hawke invited the court's decision and underscored the government obligation to keeping up with solid border policies.


Australia has recently had probably the hardest border polices on the planet to keep out Covid-19. Hawke said those guidelines had kept Australians "safe " during the pandemic and were "fundamental" in "safe-monitoring Australia's social attachment." He said in a statement "Australians have made great sacrifices to get to this point." 


Australian Prime Minister Scott Morison said in a press conference "This cancellation decision was made on health, safety and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so. I welcome the decision to keep our borders strong and keep Australians safe. This cancellation decision was made on health, safety and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so. I welcome the decision to keep our borders strong and keep Australians safe."


In spite of the fact that Covid-19 cases are increasing in Australia, the nation has a high pace of immunization and its loss of life from Covid-19 remaining parts moderately low contrasted with different nations.


Last week the nation outperformed 1 million Covid-19 cases over the whole pandemic, however the greater part of those were over the most recent Two Weeks.


A long running controversy ended



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The controversy started almost Two Weeks prior, when Djokovic's visa was first revoked not long after his appearance on January 5.



Under current Australian laws, all worldwide appearances are needed to be immunized against Covid-19  which Djokovic isn't -except if they have a clinical exclusion.



Djokovic said he was under the impression he could enter in light of the fact that two autonomous boards related with Tennis Australia and the Victorian state government had conceded him an exception because he had been contaminated with Covid-19 in December.



The national government contended that, under its guidelines, past contamination with Covid-19 is certifiably not a substantial justification behind an exclusion.



On his appearance in Australia, Djokovic was taken to the Park Hotel in Melbourne, which is additionally utilized as a confinement community for refugee, while legal counselors arranged a case to topple the choice.



On Monday, Judge Anthony Kelly decided that boundary officials had been "unreasonable" when they dropped his underlying visa to enter Australia and requested Djokovic to be liberated from migration confinement.



Djokovic's visa was revoked for the second time on Friday by Hawke, however the public authority made a deal to avoid extraditing the tennis star over the course of the end of the week prior to his case had finished up.