Djokovic Out!!

16 January 2022, 02:52 PM

wtg

Djokovic Out!!

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Originally posted by CHAS:
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Originally posted by AdagioM:
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Originally posted by Doug:
It’s a tough tennis tournament when you are eliminated from competition for missing only two shots.

Why yes, I am a dad. Why do you ask?

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16 January 2022, 03:16 PM

Doug

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Originally posted by wtg:
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Originally posted by CHAS:
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Originally posted by AdagioM:
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Originally posted by Doug:
It’s a tough tennis tournament when you are eliminated from competition for missing only two shots.

Why yes, I am a dad. Why do you ask?

What can I say? I crack myself up…

17 January 2022, 07:43 AM

CHAS

From a post of FB by the formerly active on WTF Matt G:
""When it comes to tennis, the Aussies really know how to return a Serb."
(Credit to a comment by an Irishman named Steve O'Gorman on a post about Novak Đoković's expulsion from Australia.)"

17 January 2022, 12:52 PM

AdagioM

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Originally posted by CHAS:
From a post of FB by the formerly active on WTF Matt G:
""When it comes to tennis, the Aussies really know how to return a Serb."
(Credit to a comment by an Irishman named Steve O'Gorman on a post about Novak Đoković's expulsion from Australia.)"

28 January 2022, 04:59 PM

wtg

Horrors. He might have cheated on his COVID tests?

https://www.bbc.com/news/59999541

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29 January 2022, 12:43 AM

Cindysphinx

His positive test was a total fake.

Apparently, you can buy fake positive or negative test results.

As for me, I will hope Nadal wins the Australian Open this weekend. That would be the ultimate punishment for Djokovic.

29 January 2022, 10:56 AM

pianojuggler

Did he fake a positive so he didn’t have to play?

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29 January 2022, 11:07 AM

ShiroKuro

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Did he fake a positive so he didn’t have to play?

I thought the point of faking a positive was to say that he didn't need to be vaccinated.

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29 January 2022, 11:14 AM

Cindysphinx

Right. The plan was to fake a positive test shortly before the tournament so that he could say he could not be vaccinated per Australian immigration law.

The problem with that plan was that it was ludicrous from the start. Here he is, the number one player in the world, and there is a vaccine mandate to get into Australia. Yet for months he won’t tell anyone whether he is vaccinated or whether he is going to play.

Then he just happened to catch a case of Convenient Covid right before the tournament?

People didn’t believe that was likely, so they started sniffing around. And now there’s a reason to think the test was a fake. If they can prove it, the International Tennis Federation should suspend him.

29 January 2022, 11:25 AM

ShiroKuro

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Convenient Covid

Best expression ever!!!!

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30 January 2022, 01:29 PM

Cindysphinx

And . . . Nadal won the whole thing, against all odds.

That puts Nadal at 21 major titles and Novak at 20.

Karma is real, ya'all.

30 January 2022, 02:58 PM

ShiroKuro

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Karma is real, ya'all.

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30 January 2022, 03:58 PM

Nina

Australia is losing their minds over Ash Barty's win. I don't blame them.

I agree about Nadal as well. What an awesome outcome for both singles tournaments.