(Reuters) -Indian Wells organisers stated on Tuesday that world quantity two Novak Djokovic had been positioned within the match’s draw but it surely was unclear if the Serbian can be permitted to enter the United States.
The 20-time Grand Slam winner has refused to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and beforehand stated he was ready to miss tournaments as a consequence.
“Novak Djokovic is on the match entry listing, and due to this fact is positioned into the draw in the present day. We are at the moment in communication together with his group,” Indian Wells organisers wrote on Twitter.
“However, it has not been decided if he will take part within the occasion by getting CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) approval to enter the nation.”
The CDC web site as of March 3 indicated non-U.S. residents who are usually not immigrants should present proof of vaccination towards COVID-19 so as to journey by air to the United States.
Djokovic was unable to compete on the Australian Open after immigration authorities detained him on Jan. 6, prompting a authorized rollercoaster journey over the nation’s COVID-19 entry guidelines that led to the cancellation of his visa later that month.
The California match, typically referred to as tennis’ “fifth main,” is predicted to welcome a full home after it was cancelled in 2020 and moved to October final 12 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ladies’s first spherical begins Wednesday whereas the boys’s begins Thursday.
With former world primary Roger Federer out of the match as he recovers from knee surgical procedure and Djokovic beforehand presumed absent, Spaniard Rafa Nadal was broadly favoured to choose up a males’s record-extending twenty second Grand Slam title after successful the Australian Open in January.
Djokovic most lately competed in Dubai in February, the place he misplaced within the quarter-final to Czech Jiri Vesely.
(Reporting by Amy Tennery; Editing by Toby Davis and Chris Reese)
