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9th January 2022
05:48pm GMT

He said: "I think everyone is shocked by it.
"I'm going to say two things on it just now. The first thing is that I hope that Novak is OK. I know him well, and I've always had a good relationship with him and I hope that he's OK.
"The second thing: it's really not good for tennis at all and I don't think it's good for anyone involved. I think it's really bad."
Murray is not the first high-profile tennis player to comment on the ongoing saga, with Australian player Nick Kyrgios also claiming that his country's handling of the dispute had been "really bad".
In contrast, Rafael Nadal stated that Djokovic could be playing "without a problem" if he had wanted to.
Despite Djokovic's representatives claiming that he was given a medical exemption after testing positive for Covid-19 on December 16, he was not told by the Australian government that his "so-called medical exemption" would allow him to enter the country to compete in the Australian Open.
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