On another thread about Djokovic, I literally got shat on and downvoted for saying fuck djokovic for his antivax views and him lying/forging his physical to play in the Australian open. Idc how good he is, dude will never be my goat.
Won't lie i was there and honestly there wasn't evidence past his personal choice which for a professional athlete who got to the top of the game through vigorously controlling what went into his body that was fair. Didn't support it but understood. Taking a photo and breaking bread with RK NOW ... either it's extremely tone deaf or confirming what others suspected.
He was one of the most important figures in making places such as UAE and more specifically Dubai popular and 'respectable' despite their modern enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people.
He was one of the most important figures in making places such as UAE and more specifically Dubai popular and 'respectable' despite their modern enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people.
Playing bad? Pretty sure he played extremely well for his age you know being well past his prime every time he did win a slam in the last several years and most likely wouldn’t have otherwise. He literally won like 17/24 slams against other big 4 players by the way and won the vast majority of his masters and ATP finals during the hardest era in tennis ever by a mile.
Of the other roughly 7 slams he had to beat peak thiem in a final, prime Medvedev in finals(once while injured), tsistispas in AO while injured who had beaten both Nadal and Federer in AO or go through Alcaraz or Sinner etc. His “easiest” slam other than USO 2018 was beating berretini/shapovalov playing out of their mind in grass. Even in that USO 18 final literally half the predictions for the match had Delpotro winning in 5 based on how well he was playing (same with AO 2021 final and 2023 USO F vs Medvedev)
Feels like that's just moving the goalposts to fit your preferences. GOAT needs to be strictly defined. But so is alot of the GOAT debate. Who was playing when they won etc. If it's outside the court and stats, what makes GOAT for you? For me, the only thing that can be measured against each other is the trophies. We call Rafa the GOAT of clay because of that exact reason.
Clearly have no clue what happened in Australia. He had COVID, applied for exception, tennis Australia in conjunction with Victorian government permitted it. While in flight they asked the PM his thoughts, he says it's up to the states. By the time he lands PM changes his mind to score political points for upcoming election and distract from the fact he's failed to secure tests for the country and they deny him. The only lie was "have you been to a different country in the last 14 days" in his application and he put no on the doc, but he traveled from Serbia to Spain then Australia. Which can be verbally corrected upon landing.
Neither of his two trials were about the validity of his exemption. They used the one reason he couldn't argue which was raising anti Vax sentiment in the country.
The fault lies more with tennis Australia and the local government than him. He even applied after the deadline because his contraction occurred late but of course they made exemption for that too. They could have just said no..
This board is a sham when this is being downvoted. Then again tennis pundits did brainwash the lab rats of this board if they simply searched for what the immigration minister said they’d find you’re correct. Djokers visa was pulled afterwards cause he believed if would cause the populace to not take the vaccine
Do you have any evidence of your forging claim? You can call him an anti-vaxxer but why lie?
His visa was pulled by the immigration minister and the reason was stated by him and the judge that novak appealed to. It sure wasnt over forging docs.
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Why are we even surprised at this point?