THE COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster on all fronts, and it has certainly not been kind to the public perception of world number one men's tennis player Novak Djokovic, whose medicinal opinions have been widely criticised of late.
His thoughts on health and medical science, and his advocacy for anti-vaxing, have been well-known within tennis circles for some time, and have perhaps enjoyed a certain amount of shelter, due to both his tour-leading fitness and squeaky-clean public image.
The Serbian ace recently attempted to get himself and a number of other European tennis stars back on court with his 'Adria Tour', which was widely criticised for its lack of on- and off-court social distancing practices, including warm hugs and packed stands.
The 17-time grand slam champion and his wife Jelana have both since contracted coronavirus, as have Adria Tour participants Borna Coric, Girgor Dimitrov and Viktor Troicki.
Jelena has also incited he own ridicule for spreading the widely debunked 5G conspiracy theory.
"He has brought all kinds of weird pseudoscience people on his channels, bringing on all kinds of strange gurus to talk about changing water with positive thinking and things like that," New York Times journalist Ben Rothenberg said.
Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has also called Djokovic out - an almost gold-standard certification of idiocy!
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