 On a tennis court, Novak Djokovic's timing is perfect, but when he arrived in Australia to play the first Grand Slam for the year holding documents, allowed him to enter the country without COVID-19 vaccine. His timing hardly could have been worse. When Djokovic landed in Melbourne on Wednesday, he found himself in a city beset by surging virus cases. Border officials rejected Djokovic's documentation, cancelled his visa and ordered him out of the country in a move that many Australians cheered. The tennis star's outspoken opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine struck a wrong note in the city where 92% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison quickly embraced the decision to deny him entry. This is raising questions about whether the world's top male tennis player and the reigning Australian Open champion was being made a scapegoat. Well joining us live to discuss this issue is Biola Soleschukou. She's a tennis reporter and a correspondent. Thank you very much for joining us Biola. Great, so the question everybody's asking is what exactly did Djokovic do wrong because many are saying why was he even allowed entry into the country in the first instance? I think there's a whole lot of drama going on here. First off, Lovak Djokovic is one of the very few unvaccinated players in the world at the moment and it was required that players be vaccinated to participate at the Australian Symphony Academy and given medical exemption. And those medical exemptions come on the basis of having a serious medical issue or being after contracting COVID in the last few months. It is known rather that Lovak Djokovic is unvaccinated and does not accept vaccines and no one knew for certain if he had COVID in the last few months. So I think Lovak Djokovic himself, tennis Australia as well, could have been a little more transparent as to why he got medical exemption. And then Australians were naturally offended because they have faced a whole lot of restrictions and even spectators for tournaments are not allowed into the courts if they are vaccinated. So I think the upper one needs to understand them and you can particularly meet these people. But at the moment, a lot of people think he has on because he has been told to stay for now, but tomorrow your Sri Lankan government has said he has to report him. So the drama is far from over at the moment and he might still not be in Australia. Well, many have said that the Djokovic issue has become some sort of political hot potato and this has made a lot of countries, you know, somewhat get involved in this. One of the biggest people who has been in the forefront of Brexit, Nigel Farage is actually behind Djokovic. And this is a person from a country where they are also trying as much as possible to make sure that all their people are truly vaccinated. So are people caught between the love for the tennis game in itself and of course the love of their lives because of the love for staying healthy and alive? Could that be the situation of things now? Because of course politics has gotten involved. Yes, that's definitely the situation of things because the Australian government, I don't think, really expected the citizens of Australia to be that offended and they recently had elections and of course government is trying to liquidate their eyes. And we have also seen some Djokovic supporters in Australia say to the streets to show that support for him in front of the hotel that he was detained in as well. So yes, it's definitely a political issue. The reason why the Australian government say they might spill the potent war off is also a political issue. A lot of their politicians really came up to speak just after he was detained at the airport. So it's more than just the tennis thing now. It's also political, definitely not just much career all around the world. And finally, I don't know how much of basketball you're into, but we saw a basketballer also an American, I think he plays for the Nets, if I'm not mistaken, that also had the same issue. He's like an anti-vaxxer and he was made to step aside and not play for a while until something broke within the teams and he was called back. What can other athletes, whether it be tennis, football, learn from this, especially for the anti-vaxxers who are openly saying they do not want to be vaccinated, yet they want to play the game? Yes, I think at this point, you really need to understand the rules, rules are rules. For example, almost every tournament now requires vaccination. So how long do you want to continue this drama? Or how many tournaments are you going to pull out of? And it applies to every sport tonight, every sportswoman at this time. Vaccinations are required to play almost every sport in almost every country at this point. So if we go this route in every tournament, then we keep having this kind of issue. So I think everyone, spectators, sportsmen and women, officials need to understand that rules are rules at this time and COVID is taking over and somehow needs COVID and this is one of the ways to do so. So rules are rules and we need to stick by that. I think that's what everyone needs to learn. Well, Bill Aselis-Chico is a tennis correspondent and she's of course a sports analyst. Thank you so much for speaking with us. We appreciate it. Thank you for having me, Miriam. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.