 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and world number one Novak Djokovic has spoken out about his views on vaccines and especially the COVID vaccine and the price that he's willing to pay to stay unvaccinated and keep his freedom of choice. In a recent interview he came out and said a little bit about the Australian open situation and also the possibility of missing further grand slams at Wimbledon and the French Open and the US Open potentially. Let's go over a read of his statement. This is what Djokovic had to say, I understand and support fully the freedom to choose whether you want to get vaccinated or not. I have not spoken about this before and I have not disclosed my medical record and my vaccination status because I had the right to keep that private and discreet. But as I see, there's a lot of wrong conclusions and assumptions out there and I think it's important to speak up about that and justify certain things. I was never against vaccination. I understand globally everyone is trying to put a big effort into handling this virus and seeing an end soon hopefully to this virus and vaccination was probably the biggest effort that was made. Probably half of the planet was vaccinated and I fully respect that. But I've always supported the freedom to choose what you put in your body. For me that is essential. It is really the principle of understanding what is right and what is wrong for you and me as an elite professional athlete I have always carefully reviewed, assessed everything that comes in from supplements, food, the water I drink, sports drinks, anything that comes into my body as fuel. Based on all of the information I got, I decided not to take the vaccine as of today. Djokovic also made some comments about the anti-vax label that people have put on him. This is what he had to say about that. He goes on and says, I've never been part of that movement. No one in the entire process of the Australian saga has asked me or my stance or my opinion on vaccination. No one. So I could not really express what I feel and where my stance is, neither in the legal process, neither outside. It's really unfortunate that there has been this misconceptions and wrong conclusion made around the world based on something I completely disagree with. I understand that there is a lot of criticism and I understand that people come out with different theories on how lucky I was or how convenient it is. But no one is lucky and convenient of getting COVID. Millions of people have and are still struggling with COVID around the world. So I take this very seriously. I really don't like someone thinking I've misused something or in my own favor in order to get a positive PCR test and eventually go to Australia. So a lot in that interview there with Djokovic and he's come out and said a lot of things. Of course the biggest part of that is that he might not play the French Open, Wimbledon or the US Open. He's supposed to be playing in Dubai next week. Now, those, their COVID rules are a little bit less strenuous and less strict, I guess you could say. So he can play that event. Indian Wells, Miami, it's going to be hard to get to America. I would say, especially for an unvaccinated player, the whole event in Indian Wells is going to be a vaccinated only event. So everyone who's going to that event will be vaccinated. Djokovic might have trouble getting to that, but it's the Grand Slam. He's already won all those tournaments before. It's the majors, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. They're the ones that we all want to know. Is he able to play those events? He said he's going to stay on vaccinated as long as he feels it's right for him. And that's, he's not going to give up on that stance. He's not going to get vaccinated because other people are telling him to do that. And that's his right. Let me know down in the comments below. What do you think is going to happen? Do you think Djokovic is going to play any of the events in the future or do you think he's going to play, you know, maybe a handful of events this whole year because we don't know how long COVID is going to go for. We don't know how long tournaments are going to have this, you know, vaccination only policy. There's a lot of players that are vaccinated. There's only a couple that aren't. And the world number one is one of those. So let me know down in the comments below. What do you think is going to happen with Djokovic in 2022?