Mon Sep 26, 2022 – 5:12 pm EDT
LONDON (LifeSiteNews) – Tennis champion Novak Djokovic said during a press conference last Thursday that he does not regret refusing the COVID-19 jab in spite of the fact that it barred him from participating in the U.S. Open.
“I don’t have any regrets,” Djokovic told reporters at a press conference in London shortly before the Laver Cup. “I mean, I do feel sad that I wasn’t able to play (the U.S. Open), but that was a decision I made, and I knew what the consequences would be. So I accepted them, and that’s that.”
Djokovic was barred entry into the United States this summer on account of a federal prohibition on unjabbed non-citizens from entering the country. The U.S. Open, while it did not have a jab mandate, said that it would follow federal jab mandates, thus barring Djokovic from playing.
Commenting on his participation at the Laver Cup, his first tournament in two months, Djokovic stated, “I’m not used to making, obviously in the last 15 to 20 years, longer breaks between the tournaments, but it is what it is … That’s kind of the situation I
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