In the Djokovic circus, it was the players who hit all the winners
The Guardian Weekly|January 21, 2022
Stefanos Tsitsipas learned to listen to Covid science the hard way. Not the really hard way, of course.
Emma John
In the Djokovic circus, it was the players who hit all the winners
The world’s No 4-ranked tennis player didn’t find himself laid low by the virus or on a ventilator in hospital – he just found himself publicly rebuked by his own government.

While Tsitsipas’s father-cum-coach, Apostolos, gave interviews claiming that “athletes have a strong enough immune system to deal with any challenge”, Greece’s government spokesman was pointing out that a 23 -yearold tennis player, however successful in his field, had “neither the knowledge, nor the studies, nor the research work” to offer valid opinions on vaccination. The story had a happy ending, though: Tsitsipas stopped spouting poorly informed conjecture and got himself jabbed.

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