{"id":181147,"date":"2022-01-07T00:09:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181147"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:09:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:39:14","slug":"djokovic-knew-the-rules-nadal-short-on-sympathy-for-world-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/djokovic-knew-the-rules-nadal-short-on-sympathy-for-world-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Djokovic knew the rules&#8221; Nadal short on sympathy for World No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Melbourne, Jan 6 (AP) Rafa Nadal appeared to be short on sympathy for Novak Djokovic on Thursday as he shared his thoughts on his great rival&#8217;s current plight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Djokovic&#8217;s hopes of defending his Australian Open title were dealt a serious blow on Wednesday when he had his visa revoked on arrival in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 34 year-old world number one is currently being held in a government detention hotel and his deportation has been delayed until Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 20-time major winner has consistently refused to confirm his vaccine status, but had obtained a medical exemption to play in Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This caused widespread anger in Australia, where the population has had to endure some of the world&#8217;s strictest restrictions during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If he wanted, he would be playing here in Australia without a problem,&#8221; Nadal said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Everybody is free to take their own decisions, but then there are some consequences. In some way, I feel sorry for him. But at the same time, he knew the conditions since a lot of months ago.&#8221; (AP)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Jan 6 (AP) Rafa Nadal appeared to be short on sympathy for Novak Djokovic on Thursday as he shared his thoughts on his great rival&#8217;s current plight. Djokovic&#8217;s hopes of defending his Australian Open title were dealt a serious blow on Wednesday when he had his visa revoked on arrival in Melbourne. The 34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}