appeal on procedural grounds, he wasn t given enough chance to contact support and assistance in the wee hours of the morning, and that would certainly be something they could avoid if there were political will to engage the review process. right. i appreciate, ben, you are not a political correspondent, you are very much a sports correspondent. but we have just heard there the premier of victoria, from the labor party, saying actually, we wouldn t have him, this is for the federal government, which is the liberal party, it is for them to deal with . and we have elections coming up. it is hard to avoid all about, isn t it? absolutely. there is very clearly, as soon as djokovic announced that he was coming here with an exemption, politicians were sort of lining up with a djokovic pinata, trying to look tough on him as someone who was getting around the rules. and so different politicians don t want to be seen, all of them pretty much don t want to be seen as giving djokovic any sort of
cheering and this is the moment his supporters found out about his victory. he won, djokovic won! what we saw today here in the court, that the australian legal system is functioning, it is evidence based, it is aboutjustice. yeah, i m extremely happy, as is anyone, everyone - in the serbian community here. djokovic s family welcomed the news, but remained cautious about what would happen with his visa. i m very worried, but i don t want to think like that. i just hope that it will stay like this, that he will be free and he will play. it s been a battle for all of us, it s notjust about novak, obviously. we ve been defending him every possible way we could, because we know he s a truthful and rightful guy. while many in the tennis community believe djokovic was unfairly treated, some argue that meeting
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. novak djokovic is back in training, his visa is still valid and the prospect of a tenth australian open singles title lives on. but if it sounds like game, set and match to the serb, his court victory still doesn t guarantee he can stay and compete. the country s immigration minister, alex hawke, could use personal powers at his disposal to revoke that visa despite thejudge suggesting mr djokovic did everything he could have done to comply with the rules for entry to australia. shaimaa khalil reports from melbourne. within hours of today sjudgement, novak djokovic posted this picture on twitter, saying he was pleased and grateful that thejudge had overturned the visa cancellation. and despite all that has happened, he wants to stay and try to compete at the australian open.
on djokovic s route of getting to australia. yeah, djokovic is basically amassing a timeline of what djokovic has been up to for the last month raises a bunch more questions as to how he got here and whether he was doing things the right way. most recently found one of the forms released by the courts yesterday, which was this australian travel declaration, in which djokovic was warned to be honest under penalty of you know, penalties for misstating things on that form. and he said he had not travelled to any other countries in the previous 1a days, he checked the no box for that question, which was not correct, because djokovic had travelled between serbia and spain in that window. he also is raising more questions with his story about having a positive test on 16 december, which is a couple of days before he was at other events in public, including one large event with a bunch of kids, all not wearing masks, and that would have been the day after djokovic received a positive
questions for him to answer once he finally faces the media here in melbourne. this is anything but straightforward for something that should be straightforward. so where does that leave us, do you think, and what sort of chance is there that djokovic s dream of being there for the open might still be thwarted? in tennis terms, the ball is very much in the court of alex hawke, who is the minister for immigration here in the australian federal government, and he has the authority to review and revoke djokovic s visa, pretty much unilaterally, in a non reviewable process. the thing with djokovic s visa getting cancelled in the first place and then that cancellation getting overturned by the courts was that he won his appeal solely on procedural grounds, not on the grounds or the merits that he had the right paperwork to get into australia. his paperwork would still not be sufficient according to federal government guidelines. so if they do choose to review it again anew, you would assume