 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and with the US Open only a few months away and Some question marks over players that are not playing at Wimbledon We have some clarification now that Russians will be allowed to play at the US Open this year Unlike at Wimbledon where they're being banned But there is a key player that will not be allowed to play at the US Open and that's Novak Djokovic Here's a statement from the USTA about the reason in why Djokovic can't play in the Russians can So this came out by the USTA saying though Medvedev should be able if healthy to defend his title in New York The player he defeated in last year's final Novak Djokovic of Serbia remains unable to enter the United States because he is an Unvaccinated foreigner that policy which kept Djokovic from competing at Indian Wells and Miami this year could change before the US Open begins But sure made it clear on Tuesday that the USTA would not be seeking an exemption for unvaccinated players to compete in New York We're going to follow the government and the CDC directives said sure referring to the centers for disease control and prevention So there you have it the Russian and Belarusian players are back in the slams at the US Open But Novak Djokovic unless the rules change over the next couple of months will not be playing in New York He wasn't allowed to play at the start of the year We all know what happened in Australia the big fiasco there He tried to play Indian Wells, but he wasn't allowed in the country There's a lot of points to defend at that tournament, but let me know in the comments below Do you think Novak Djokovic will get to be able to play? Do you think they'll change the rules by the time we get to August September when the US Open is happening? But we have confirmation the Daniel Medvedev will be playing at the US Open this year