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Novak Djokovic won his archetypal Australian Open rubric successful 2008Novak Djokovic volition play successful January's Adelaide International, a twelvemonth aft being deported from Australia due to the fact that of his Covid-19 vaccination status.
The Serb, who has won a grounds 9 Australian Open titles, is besides acceptable to vie astatine the archetypal Grand Slam of the twelvemonth aft his visa prohibition was overturned.
Britain's Andy Murray, Kyle Edmund and Jack Draper volition besides play successful Adelaide, with the lawsuit opening connected 1 January.
The Australian Open starts 15 days aboriginal successful Melbourne.
As good arsenic satellite fig 5 Djokovic, determination volition beryllium 3 different top-10 men's players successful Adelaide, with Felix Auger-Aliassime, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev besides competing.
The women's tract is beardown excessively arsenic top-10 players Ons Jabeur, Aryna Sabalenka, Daria Kasatkina and Veronika Kudermetova instrumentality part.
Djokovic, 35, won the season-ending ATP Finals successful December and volition beryllium bidding to triumph a 22nd Grand Slam title, which would instrumentality him level with Spain's Rafael Nadal, who claimed the rubric successful Melbourne astatine the commencement of this year.
Serbia's Djokovic was deported earlier the 2022 lawsuit aft his visa was cancelled. He was automatically banned for 3 years from entering Australia, but successful November learned that helium would person a visa for 2023.
Meanwhile, Britain's Emma Raducanu volition commencement her play astatine the Auckland Open successful New Zealand, which starts connected 2 January.
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