Fox News reports that Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the BNP Paribas Open because the Biden Administration denied him entry to the United States over his COVID vaccine status.
The 35-year-old tennis star requested a waiver to enter the United States unvaccinated, but the Department of Homeland Security denied him that waiver. He is a 22-time Grand Slam champion, but now he cannot participate in the events scheduled in the United States because he has been denied the vaccine.
Djokovic is from Serbia and is currently ranked number one globally by the Association of Tennis Professionals. However, he won’t get a chance to make his case to compete to maintain that ranking because he will not be allowed into the United States.
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It is not a foregone conclusion that Djokovic would dominate any competition he is in. As Fox News reports, in his last professional appearance at the Dubai Tennis Championships, he lost to Russia’s Daniil Medvedev. In that event, Medvedev went on to take the championship.
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Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio called on the White House to change its vaccine travel rules. Both Florida Republicans said that this is a “bogus vaccine mandate.”
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The Republicans wrote a joint letter to the White House that opened with the following:
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“It has come to our attention that your administration is in receipt of a request to waive the current vaccine mandate for international travelers entering the United States from top-ranked men’s tennis player Novak Djokovic. We write to urge you to grant the requested waiver, which is necessary to allow Mr. Djokovic to compete in the Miami Open professional tennis tournament held in our home state of Florida beginning March 19, 2023.”
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In the letter, the Republicans even reminded Biden that he had previously stated that the pandemic was “over.”
The letter continued:
“In September 2022, you plainly declared to a national audience on 60 Minutes that ‘the [COVID-19] pandemic is over,’ and, earlier this year, Dr. Anthony Fauci published a professional article acknowledging the limited efficacy of vaccines in protecting against respiratory pathogens, like the novel coronavirus,” the senators continued. “In light of these changing circumstances, and admissions by you and members of your own administration, the current restrictive vaccine mandate which you have maintained for international travelers entering the United States seems outdated and worthy of rescission.”
They are trying to make some solid points about what the administration has said before and what needs to be done going forward.
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