Because the best player was forbidden from competing for not submitting to an experimental drug known to cause severe side effects in athletes.
Australian Open 2022 "winner" will always have an asterisk by his name
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Covid infection cases severe side effects in athletes:
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Because the best player was forbidden from competing for not submitting to an experimental drug known to cause severe side effects in athletes.
Nah.
Ridiculous anti-vaxxer is ridiculous, but I do think the mandate was silly.
But there are always top players who don't play in major tournaments because of injury. That doesn't put an asterisk on anything. In this case it is the Australian government being unfair and not the universe, but on the ground it's an equivalent scenario.
In a couple months, no one will care about this Novak vs Australia tiff except to marvel at how its possible for two opposite sides of a dispute to both be so ridiculously silly and wrong.