“They’ve been going through a really rough time as well, especially people in Victoria. You couldn’t go from state to state, you couldn’t see your loved ones for months and months and months. It’s been rough, they were in a lockdown for 270 days and it was a pretty harsh lockdown so they don’t understand how they can let Novak Djokovic into the country.”
The Eurosport pundit also admitted that vaccinated tennis players were already receiving a privilege to compete, making the public outrage at an unvaccinated Djokovic being allowed in the country even worse.
“If you would want to go now to Australia, you wouldn’t be let in because you have to either be a citizen or you have to have a residency here, and that the players are allowed to come in is already a big exemption for the country,” she explained.
While Schett things Djokovic will still be “motivated” if the “very controversial” decision to allow him to stay in the country and compete in next week’s Australian Open is made, she expects the nine-time champion to receive a frosty reception from the crowd.
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