Novak Djokovic Is In The Indian Wells Draw, But Can He Get Into The U.S.?

Ugh. More of this? Who needs it during these bleak times?

March 8th, 2022 at 10:34 pm

Billy – we need our diversions right now because no sane person should fixate only on war violence and the dire possibilities in their off time.
The global elites are dropping Covid and laying the propaganda on heavy against Russia. It seems that half the stuff coming from the Ukrainian side is a lie or recycled video and propaganda from 2014. They are filming a single building involved in rifle parts from 3 angles after it’s destroyed and claiming there were 3 separate civilian buildings targeted and bombed by the dastardly Russians. Showing 3 different video angles.
I don’t know what is true and what is false at this point.
As a Djokovic fan though, I think he got on a foolish anti-vaxx kick and it cost him a shot at the Australia Open, his #1 Ranking, and a top sponsor tired of the unending Djokovic drama detracting from their product sales.

March 9th, 2022 at 12:24 am

“I don’t know what is true and what is false at this point.”

Pretty shocking that your capacity for truth is so constrained that you would call into question the veracity of an INVASION just because you doubt the origin of some of the footage? Jeezus H.

Also, your use of the dated adjective ‘dastardly’ tells us what you really think of the current situation. The only current contextual usage for that term is humorous, so please: no time for jokes (I’m sure you won’t agree with that either, but note I did suggest politely).

Use your critical judgement more productively and I promise you’ll stop seeing conspiracy around every corner. Just because it doesn’t fit your unhinged narrative doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

However, as you’ve admitted you are a Djokovic fan, it seems unlikely you have a shred of critical judgement left. The man is a walking, talking, super-spreading, sham-science, emotional-water-purification nonsense repository who continues to find new ways to damage his own sport. Others have already noted this stunt will likely cost a lower-ranked player a payday, notwithstanding the further reputation damage to the sport overall after the ridiculous, unnecessary scenes in Australia. If the man says he’ll miss tournaments for being unvaxxed, then maybe he should just do that. No one forced him to say it.

March 9th, 2022 at 7:56 am

“Sponsors tired of the unending Djokovic drama.” We all are!!! Please just go away, Novax, there is no more room for your toxic ego.

March 9th, 2022 at 9:54 am

FFS let Novak play, he is a danger to no one.

@ ChrisM: do you think Ukraine should shut down the network of US bioweapons labs operating in Ukraine? Putin has called for that since 2020. How about the Ukrainian Nazi militia groups? Do you think Zelensky should continue to allow them to operate and give them awards for bravery?

March 9th, 2022 at 11:06 am

who cares whether he plays or not.. attention seeking is his best quality from the beginning..

March 9th, 2022 at 11:45 am

@CF1 12:24

Really????? Some of the comments on here blow this “old “ woman’s mind…..😳😳😳

March 9th, 2022 at 1:33 pm

At the root of all of the “attack Novak” crowd is their frustration that the man cannot be beaten.

When he can’t be beaten what is the solution?

Force him out of the game altogether of course!

Sadly (for them) he will not lie down and die. He will continue and he will cement what he has already achieved, the status of the Greatest Tennis Player of All Time.

People like ChrisM, when I read their words I imagine them being read in a whiny little voice. He’s like a little kid, boo hoo, boo hoo, boo hoo. I think he was smacked around in school, learned the survival technique of crying loudly to draw attention.

March 9th, 2022 at 5:08 pm

Zed, a tip: read back aloud what you write and you’ll discover it makes no sense.

Lylenubbins: My criticism above related to the word ‘dastardly’ which is now an archaic, dated way of describing evil and is only used in a jokey context. I didn’t decide this; it’s in the dictionary. I urged OP to take the situation seriously and not use jokey (i.e. stupid) words to describe the situation. If you have a problem with that, fine. I’m not interested in whatever glop you’re throwing otherwise. I think I’ve made the point here recently (on several occasions) that I’m always concerned about Nazis (and it’s quite clear that several other commentators here are not) but sure, hey, tag me about it! Just because you didn’t like that I called out some guy here for misuse of language while simultaneously appearing to poo-poo whether or not an invasion is actually happening for the sake of questioning some video he saw? Seriously??

I’d love to have serious discussions about the military-industrial complex, late capitalism, and the onset of technoculture but there are people commenting here who “don’t know what is true and what is false at this point” and who “think [I] was smacked around in school” (haha no) and so, no thanks — I’ll drop by whenever I feel like it, but that’s all I’ll promise.

March 9th, 2022 at 6:57 pm

ChrisM, if you didn’t whine so much I wouldn’t have that impression.

Your hatred of Novak is obsessive but there doesn’t seem to be a way out for you. Your hatred and frustration will only grow over the next 2-3 years as he continues to add to his already unprecedented record.

He will continue to grow and you will continue to moan about it, you must be so much fun at dinner parties :)

Surely you can see that the only person damaged by your obsession is you. Novak doesn’t even know you exist.

March 9th, 2022 at 7:38 pm

ChrisM – It does not take membership in a conspiracy group to see the explosion in disinformation in Western Democracies. The worst part about it is it comes from high up in governments and is employed as part and parcel of propaganda not just against foreign nations but to push the citizens of the country accept decisions they have no say in.
Get the cattle to go along, swallow the diss-info. Because THEY NO LONGER decide. The elites decide and present carefully constructed lies to their people to go along with it.

This was always regular fare in totalitarian states. But it has never been used to the degree it has been in the West. More and more each year, until we need people from those totalitarian nations to explain how it works.

One summer, cities burn and BLM is given “moral supremacy” by the media and Ruling Elites and no one gets prosecuted.
That disappears to the War for Covid masks and vaccinations. Good medical practice turned into state coercion to supposedly protect the masses from the likes of Djokovic. Djokovic makes a few reckless mistakes and next thing you know, he is a pariah.

Ukraine threatens Russia with war in Nov 2021 to retake the Donbas and use the Azov Nazis for terrorism, War to reclaim ‘Ukrainian Crimea’, has Zelensky and other billionaire Oligarchs woo NATO countries and reject Moscow’s warnings it will not be tolerated. Biden and Blinken, representing the Puppet Masters, issue a joint statement Nov 1, 2021 with Ukrainian leadership supporting Ukraine’s eventual NATO membership and taking the Donbass and Ukraine back under the Ukraine – spitting in Putin’s face in the process. Looking back, it was clear the Puppet Masters had decided to push Russia to War
Putin starts the war and INSTANTLY!, the Elites deem all the Covid totalitarianism and Mandates are deemed not important anymore.
Because Putin as archdemon in a black hat. As proved with all the fake video and fake news the Ukrainians can churn out accepted uncritically.

This the new cause of the Puppet Master Elites – protect the money laundering and dark money stashed in the Ukraine, protect the billionaire Ukrainian Oligarchs – to induce hysteria in the global masses.
Led by America, of course. Which loves to scream old WWII slogans as it invades and bombs new countries every other year.
“Munich! We have to bomb Serbians. We are all noble Iraqi Freedom Lovers Now, as we were all Londoners in 1940, George Bush brays, as the invasion starts. Hitler is reborn in Trump, etc.”

The problem with disinformation and fake news to strip democracy away and only inflame and manipulate the masses into accepting what the Puppet Masters have already decided to do – is just that – Democracy and the will of the people made into a sham.
With all the anti-Vaxxer disinformation, Finland actually added a high school requirement to examine and understand how fake news is employed to demonize others, push an agenda and make it happen without the lowly masses having a say in it. Then tell the poor rubes THEY are the smart ones, pat them on the head and butter them up since they are now obedient. They should be proud they sucked up all the disinfo and became anti-Vax!

That’s the world we have, and those that run “sports escapes” from a world growing more fascist by the week – need to remember they are escapes and keep politics out of it.

March 10th, 2022 at 12:04 am

In the middle of my “screed” I said Ukraine taking Ukraine back when I meant Ukraine taking control of Russian Crimea again. Which is another War trigger for the Russians. Losing southern sea access is as an existential threat to Russia as NATO doing what the Soviets wanted to do to JFK and the Americans with the Warsaw Pact taking up military residence in Cuba.

NIkita Khrushchev and the old Politiburo realized JFK and the Americans could not accept the Communists at the doorstep of America with troops, bases, air defenses, and nukes. They pushed a little too hard, ignored Soviet ‘doves’ – and suddenly realized JFK had ordered America’s military forces to DEFCON 2 – nuclear war could happen in hours, be ready in under 6 hours to strike.

This time, I don’t know. You have the billionaire Oligarchs of the Ukraine, inc. Zelensky (supposedly he has 5 houses inc. a 35 million dollar one in the East Europe Oligarch and bodyguards and babes enclave of Sunny Isles Florida, 1.1 billion in an offshore Costa Rican back that serves many Russian, Kazakh, Belorussian and Ukrainian Oligarchs). They bribed the heck out of Germans, pols like Biden, Biden’s family and believe war with Russia is calling on the bribed US officials for favors. And half of Biden’s Cabinet are powerful puppet masters, all very wealthy multimillionaires at least, most sharing ethnicity with the Russian and Ukrainian Oligarchs.

All true? I don’t know. Russian disinformation, arriving much later than the Ukrainians started their disinformation & propaganda campaign claims the billionaire by way of corruption against Zelensky and his comrades, the 5 houses. Could be lies. We don’t know.
But not enough facts for me to put white hats on the corrupt Oligarchs and a black hat on the manufactured dastardly villain Putin. And funny to hear Americans that were in multiple wars, unwanted invasions in the last 70 years doing just what Putin is doing – indulge in moral outrage

March 10th, 2022 at 12:41 am

ChrisFord1,

I admire you for trying but there is a saying that “none are so blind as those who refuse to see”.

Sadly, neither you nor I will change a mind that is closed no matter how many words we type.

However, I will say that there is a tiny, minuscule hope for the future.

The unholy triad of corrupt government, corrupt media and corrupt judiciary/law-enforcement relies very, very, heavily on the corrupt media arm to push their propaganda.

It has worked enormously well for a very long time (even before radio and television which raised their power to unprecedented levels) but it is crumbling slowly because of the wonder of the internet.

Even though they are partnering hard with the likes of Facebook/Google etc to also control speech over the internet they are having trouble putting the genie back in the bottle.

Maybe I am too optimistic but I feel there is some slim chance that the internet is allowing enough people to wake up. That maybe, just maybe, we will see a revolution of truth.

If it does come to pass I think I will be long dead at that time but it makes me happy to think that young people in the future may be less manipulated than the people of today.

If it doesn’t happen then there will be one-world government, totalitarian control of everyone and everything and neo-serfdom will be how most people in the world will live.

As Klaus Schwab happily predicted “you will own nothing and you will be happy”. Let’s work to prove that scum wrong.

March 10th, 2022 at 1:46 am

Please Tennis x can we have a off topic thread for people wanting to talk politics 😕

March 10th, 2022 at 5:26 am

Yes, absolutely agree with Alison. All this “elites conspiracy” talk is taking away from your well written and balanced “elite tennis news” which I follow on Tennis-X.

March 10th, 2022 at 6:41 pm

JA thanks but I think it will all fall on deaf ears.

March 11th, 2022 at 7:58 am