{"id":428456,"date":"2023-03-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428456"},"modified":"2023-03-06T02:17:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:17:03","slug":"djokovic-withdraws-after-failed-visa-bid-to-play-indian-wells","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-withdraws-after-failed-visa-bid-to-play-indian-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic withdraws after failed visa bid to play at Indian Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Novak Djokovic has formally withdrawn from the draw for the Indian Wells tournament, organizers said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star had an application for a COVID-19 vaccine waiver to enter the U.S. and it might have failed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the 2023 BNP Paribas Open. With his withdrawal, Nikoloz Basilashvili moves into the field,&#8221; organizers said in a statement late on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic has chosen not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, and the U.S. government has chosen not to relax its policy against unvaccinated individuals from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 1 will not play Indian Wells: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OHeczh66WU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/OHeczh66WU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TENNIS (@Tennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tennis\/status\/1632579429112115200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe U.S. currently bars unvaccinated foreigners from entry into the country, a policy that is expected to be lifted when the government ends its COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has not competed at the back-to-back ATP Masters events in Indian Wells and Miami, two of the biggest tournaments on the ATP calendar and known as the &#8220;Sunshine Double&#8221;, since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Novak Djokovic has formally withdrawn from the draw for the Indian Wells tournament, organizers said on Sunday. The Serbian star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":316244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17855],"acf":{"announce":"Serbian player applied for a COVID-19 vaccine waiver, but failed","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428456"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428456"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}