2026 Off-Topic Chat Thread

[Shell]

Lol he's in a room without his entourage or his mobile phone.

Since 11pm

 

[Shell]

Damn why couldn't they have "Border Security: LIVE".

Missed opportunity right there ch7

 

[FredLeDeux]

Lol he's in a room without his entourage or his mobile phone.

Since 11pm

The head honchos at Tennis Australia will be going ballistic, all those secret backroom deals going down the tubes.

 

[Shell]

I got the solution

Joker WFH. Go home and participate in the Open via Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

 

[Braklet]

I Feel pets are for life, not our lives but thier lives .
We enjoy them and love them while we have them.
They not silly they feel your love .

We had 4 cats, all from the same litter, my wife captured them feral from the backyard, and tamed them. They were with us through a lot of good times and a lot of hard times, they were comforting especially when family members died.

Was with each when we had to push them over the edge; the last one lived nearly 20 years...

Their absence still feels like a knife in my guts, Mrs. Braklet wants more but right now I just can't face that.

Agree 100% with the above, the thing about pets is that their love is totally unconditional.

 

[Shell]

Omg. PMSL

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Damn why couldn't they have "Border Security: LIVE".

Missed opportunity right there ch7

Would be great if it made an episode

 

[cats_09]

And Novak is still waiting - guess he should have applied for the correct visa...

 

[winty]

 

[Shell]

ooooooooooh. yeah.

Funny.

 

[Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever]

Nice one! Great song that too! Though it is Avril after all…

 

[Shell]

HE's GONE

 

[Shell]

GOODBYE. GET BACK ON THE PLANE NO AUSSIE OPEN FOR U

 

[Shell]

/sigh. looking at going to court.

 

[Shell]

Lmfao. "Court". HAHAHAHAHAH Not the type of court he wants tho.

 

[winty]

Would be funny if they can only fit him into the court schedule after the Open has already finished.

 

[Down at K Park]

If he does take this to court he will more than likely win, unless there is more to this than we are aware.

He followed all their rules.

 

[Shell]

Would be funny if they can only fit him into the court schedule after the Open has already finished.

Exactly.

But $$$$ talks in these situations maybe?? Idk.

 

[Shell]

But afaik if there's issue with your VISA you have to go home and rectify it. You cant just stay here and change it, or whatever.

 

[Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever]

I can’t believe there hasn’t been a solution yet, I’ve had a full nights sleep and they still are stuck at airport.

 

[Shell]

His coaching staff/entourage have been processed and allowed in

*but they're staying at the airport.
No shit.

 

[Down at K Park]

I really hope they haven’t just cancelled it cause he hurt their feelings by playing them at their own rules. Serbia is pissed off and creating an international incident over hurt feelings makes our country look pathetically weak.


Won’t stop the pearl clutchers wringing their hands with joy though. Until the government pulls the same thing with someone they like, then they cry how unfair it is. Talk about dangerous precedents.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

If he does take this to court he will more than likely win, unless there is more to this than we are aware.

He followed all their rules.

Nah he won't. If he applied for the wrong visa he applied for the wrong visa.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

I really hope they haven’t just cancelled it cause he hurt their feelings by playing them at their own rules. Serbia is pissed off and creating an international incident over hurt feelings makes our country look pathetically weak.


Won’t stop the pearl clutchers wringing their hands with joy though. Until the government pulls the same thing with someone they like, then they cry how unfair it is. Talk about dangerous precedents.

I think the "pearl clutchers" are just happy the same rules are being applied to him a everyone else. It's just refreshing that a rich person hasn't just been able to re-write the rules to suit him

 

[cats_09]

If he does take this to court he will more than likely win, unless there is more to this than we are aware.

He followed all their rules.

Except he didn't follow the rules, hence why his visa was cancelled

Yes he followed the application process for applying for entry into the Aus Open, along with 25 other exemption applications

He then screwed himself, or more so his team kinda screwed him, by applying for the wrong visa which didn't allow him entry:

"However, late on Wednesday evening it emerged that Djokovic was seeking to enter Australia on a work visa, which doesn’t permit medical exemptions for being unvaccinated and requires the support of the Victorian government.

A federal government source told The Age there were question marks about whether Djokovic had adequate documentation to prove the reason for his exemption, which is required from unvaccinated people."


Honestly thought that either himself or others in his camp would have enough knowledge of country entry requirements by this stage of his career to know about applying for the correct type of visa