Adelaide International: Novak Djokovic gets favorable welcome back to Australia

Adelaide International: Novak Djokovic gets favorable welcome back to Australia

Novak Djokovic teamed up with Canada’s Vasek Pospisil in the males’s doublesNovak Djokovic got a favorable welcome back to Australia as he made a unusual doubles looks at the Adelaide International. The Serb was deported prior to the 2022 Australian Open duetothefactthat of his Covid-19 vaccination status. Djokovic’s three-year visa restriction was reversed in November, permitting him to getin the nation. He and Canada’s Vasek Pospisil were beaten 4-6 6-3 10-5 by Tomislav Brkic and Gonzalo Escobar on his return. The 21-time Grand Slam champ delightedin frustrating assistance from the crowd throughout the match, welcomed by cheers and chants of “Novak, Novak” as he made his method on to court. The 35-year-old, presently ranked world number 5, remained behind after the defeat to indication autographs and take pictures with fans. He is top seed in the songs in Adelaide and will face Frenchman Constant Lestienne in the veryfirst round on Tuesday as he continues his accumulation to the Australian Open, the veryfirst significant of the season, which begins on 16 January. Djokovic is a nine-time champ in Melbourne and is simply one Grand Slam title shy of Rafael Nadal’s guys’s record of22 Elsewhere in the Adelaide guys’s songs on Monday, British number 3 Jack Draper beat South Korea’s Kwon Soon-woo 6-2 6-1 to development to the 2nd round. Australian qualifier Alexei Popyrin shocked Canada’s 2nd seed and world number 6 Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4 7-6 (7-5) while wo
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