In 2022, the top tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic, was excluded from competing in the [[Australia]]n "Open" tournament based on an unrelated political issue concerning his [[vaccination]] status. His exclusion had nothing to do with his tennis talent, which is concededly the best in the world and probably the best of all-time. Yet the Australian "Open" proceeded under the pretense that it was some kind of championship tournament open to the best players in the world. It is not. | In 2022, the top tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic, was excluded from competing in the [[Australia]]n "Open" tournament based on an unrelated political issue concerning his [[vaccination]] status. His exclusion had nothing to do with his tennis talent, which is concededly the best in the world and probably the best of all-time. Yet the Australian "Open" proceeded under the pretense that it was some kind of championship tournament open to the best players in the world. It is not. |