CV and mad panic behaviour

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It's a lot easier to feel sorry for Renata Voracova than it is Novak Djokovic. She's a 38 year old journeywoman doubles specialist with a lowly ranking of 81 in the world after a career high of 29. Her career prizemoney is just $US1.8m which sounds good until you consider all the travel & accommodation expenses she's paid over the years. Novak has earned $US153m, leaving aside the offcourt earnings he rakes in.

She was waived through on arrival and played a match before being detained by the ABF after the Djokovic saga started. She ended up in the same refugee hotel that Djokovic is staying in and has decided to leave Australia forthwith as she believes she won't have time to properly prepare for her matches now.

She says she was going to get the vaccine but unfortunately caught Covid before she did. Given her lowly status, there's no chance Tennis Australia went out of its way to bend the rules for her, and as she'd be operating on a shoestring budget there's little doubt she needed to rely upon Tennis Australia to organise her paperwork. I hope Tennis Australia reimburses her for her expenditure on this ill-fated trip.

Very true, although it's perhaps not quite as bad as you suggest, most of the big tournaments cover basic flights and accommodation, or at least partially reimburse the players with an allowance.

I agree, there is no chance she got special treatment, but then if she had Djoker would have a more legitimate claim so they are probably very lucky they didn't bend the rules for her.

Personally, I've no problem with Djoker playing unvaccinated as long as the tournament obeys suitable isolation conditions and he completes the mandatory quarantine. However, I can see where it becomes unfair to those who have lost their job because they are not vaccinated, some people have no choice as isolation is impossible in many service roles.