The court case faced by the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic to try to stop the cancellation of his visa will delay the publication of the order of play for the first day of the Australian Open which will start this Monday.
“We are waiting for a solution to be taken on the Djokovic case in order to draw up the order of play. We estimate that It will be around 17 hours”, explained a member of the ‘major’ organization to EFE.
The sunny and hot morning that was presented on the banks of the Yarra River encouraged tennis players to jump onto the courts of Melbourne Park despite the fact that they still do not know the times of their first matches as a result of the trial held this morning after the appeal filed by Djokovic’s lawyers.
The other reason why the organization urgently needs to know the judge’s ruling is because of the possible modification draw.
For the event, the most catastrophic scenario from a sporting point of view would be that the deportation of the Balkan was confirmed after the publication of the order of play.
In this case, it would be a lucky loser who would cover the place of defending champion Djokovic and would leave the team of the first major of the season very unbalanced.
If the deportation is announced before the organization makes the order of play official, it would be the fifth seed, the Russian Andrey Rublev, who would replace the position of the Serbian.
In this scenario, the French Gael Monfils (17) would occupy the position of the fifth favorite, and the first tennis player outside the favorites, the Kazakh Alexander Bublik, would start in the position of the seventeenth seed.
The last possibility would be that the deportation would be executed after the first classified mu ndial has started the competition and in that case his next rival would advance to the next round without playing the match.
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