When John Millman fired off a tweet about Novak Djokovic, he certainly didn't expect this response 😳
, which begins later this month. The Serbian champion was booted out of Australia at the start of this year for the same reason.Millman - who has withdrawn from an ATP 250 event in Mexico after contracting COVID-19 - was obviously unimpressed by seeing people flout the rules.
"I was just in the states and it didn't really feel like too many were following any recommendations or guidelines there," he tweeted from isolation.The suggestion from Millman sparked a heated debate, with American followers unimpressed by his criticism of the rules as well as his push for Djokovic to play in New York."Let me be clear, if everyone in the country was following guidelines then I'm all for them enforcing a vax entry policy," he said.
"But from what I saw pretty much no one was, the tournament allows non-vaxxed citizens to play and only 30 per cent have had a booster."Millman, 33, eventually got fed up with the replies. "Twitter is full of people having all types of opinions on different matters but when an athlete has an opinion on something that is not to do with their sport they are told to 'stick to your sport'," he tweeted.For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by
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