{"id":751971,"date":"2022-01-16T07:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/tennis-star-novak-djokovic-loses-australian-visa-appeal\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T07:44:50","slug":"tennis-star-novak-djokovic-loses-australian-visa-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/tennis-star-novak-djokovic-loses-australian-visa-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis star, Novak Djokovic loses Australian visa appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/c5cf5b98fca5fce1ab2dbd1a6e9acea8-696x391.jpg\"   alt=\"Novak Djokovic\" title=\"Novak Djokovic\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Tennis star Novak Djokovic has lost his last-ditch court bid to stay in Australia and is set to be deported.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Court upheld a government decision to cancel the unvaccinated Serbian player\u2019s visa.<\/p>\n<p>The government argued the 34-year-old posed a threat to public health.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is now unable to defend his Australian Open title in Melbourne. He was due to play his first match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>During Sunday\u2019s court hearing before a three-judge panel, Djokovic\u2019s defence unsuccessfully argued that the grounds given by the government were \u201cinvalid and illogical\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has been staying at an immigration detention hotel in Melbourne, the same place he was taken after his visa was first revoked following his arrival on 6 January.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Smvj_fueHII\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHS Education: Double-track system phased out in SHS, Education Ministry discloses \u2013 AdomTV(14-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Smvj_fueHII?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis star Novak Djokovic has lost his last-ditch court bid to stay in Australia and is set to be deported. The Federal Court upheld a government decision to cancel the unvaccinated Serbian player\u2019s visa. The government argued the 34-year-old posed a threat to public health. Djokovic is now unable to defend his Australian Open title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1101,785,318,1568,319,209,1875,320],"class_list":["post-751971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-appeal","tag-australian","tag-djokovic","tag-loses","tag-novak","tag-star","tag-tennis","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}