Will they humiliate Novak like this? Thiem banned from watching tournament he previously won

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Austria's best tennis player Dominic Thiem cannot watch the ATP tournament currently taking place in Vienna live at the venue because he has not been vaccinated against coronavirus.

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Thiem, which has been injured since June and is working to return to the court, has meanwhile started training with the ball and racket.

However, he has not been able to enter the Vienna venue as a spectator, where his many rivals are playing the tournament he won in 2019.

Namely, at this tournament, the so-called "2G" rule is applied to the audience, according to which only vaccinated or people who have recovered from Covid can enter the hall.

Players and their coaches can also show a negative PCR test to participate.

Thiem announced a couple of weeks ago that he has not yet been vaccinated against coronavirus, and that it is waiting for the Novavax vaccine, which has not yet been approved.

This is just one of the problems that have appeared in world tennis lately, and the biggest dilemma is about the participation of tennis players who have not been vaccinated (including our Novak Djokovic) at the Australian Open in early 2022.

Novak is the record holder and nine-time winner of this tournament, but he is threatened with a ban from entering almost every day by Australian authorities, unless he shows proof of receiving the coronavirus vaccine.

(Telegraf.rs)