 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Ken Williams and Novak Djokovic has been denied a medical exemption from arriving in the Australian Open. According to Serbian newspapers, he is not getting a special treatment coming into Australia. We all know he pulled out of the ATB Cup. This is what the Prime Minister of Australia had to say about a month ago. This is what the Australian Prime Minister had to say about Novak Djokovic about a month ago. Any of the same rules that anyone else would be seeking to come to Australia, those decisions are being made by medical officials and other officials, not by politicians. They're the rules, medical exemptions are just that, it's not a loophole for privileged tennis players. It is a medical exemption in exceptional circumstances if you have an acute medical condition and I think the view of all Victorians, that everyone who attends the Open, player, spectator, staff, officials, everyone is fully vaccinated. You'll follow the same rules as anybody else would. There are no special rules for tennis players or anyone else. So that's what the Prime Minister of Australia had to say at the start of December and from what we're hearing Novak Djokovic, he's asked for medical exemption but he's not going to get it. He already pulled out of the ATB Cup, we know that and the Australian Open is not that far away, only about three weeks away and we don't know if he's going to play. Let me know down in the comments below. Do you think Djokovic is going to play because it's an ongoing saga and we won't know until he actually tells us if he's playing or not. It seems like very, very unlikely the longer this goes that he's going to actually get to Australia, even if he got vaccinated today, he wouldn't be allowed into Australia anyway. So very unlikely Djokovic is going to play which is a shame but I'm going to down in the comments below. What do you think? So Djokovic denied a medical exemption. Let's see if he plays the Australian Open.