The Australian Open Champion *
The Australian government made a mockery of their country, the pandemic, and the tournament. They used Djokovic as a political pawn, and his vaccination status, as an excuse to keep him out of the tournament and eventually kicking him out of the country.
Still, the country is run like a penal colony and the cases of COVID-19 remain at their highest despite of their vaccination mandates and lockdowns. Spare me the outrage.
Rafael Nadal may have won the Australian Open, but without the #1 ranked player in the world, Novak Djokovic, the victory will be seen by many as a fraud and with a huge asterisk next to it.
The Australian government may have won the ‘Woke War’, but they lost their prestige with it.