By Ricky Dimon
Alex de Minaur has denied stories within the Spanish media that he’s being investigated for utilizing false Covid-19 vaccination information to enter final week’s ABN AMRO World Tennis Match in Rotterdam.
In line with stories, police in Spain are investigating greater than 2,000 folks for allegedly buying false Covid-19 vaccination passes on the Hospital La Paz in Madrid. Eleven folks have already been arrested for “forgery and using cast paperwork.”
“We are able to affirm the title,” the police stated when requested about de Minaur being on the record, which reportedly contains {many professional} athletes.
The Thirty second-ranked Aussie, whose twenty third birthday is at the moment, denied all of it with a social media submit.
“Hello everybody,” de Minaur wrote on social media. “I needed to jot down a fast message right here to keep away from any misunderstanding concerning a report that’s within the Spanish media about my vaccination certificates. I obtained my first dose of the vaccine in London final summer season, and the second on the Hospital La Paz in Madrid. Information got here out at the moment that the hospital is below investigation for offering falsified Covid certificates to a few of its sufferers. I wish to make it 100% clear that I obtained my second shot, that I’ve a totally legitimate, correct and true vaccination file. Everybody round me, together with my household, is absolutely vaccinated. I’m not “below investigation” in any approach as is being recommended and my title is linked to this story just because I used to be a affected person on the hospital (as many hundreds of others have been)”.
De Minaur, who has lived and educated in Spain for a few years, is predicted to play subsequent week on the Dubai Obligation Free Tennis Championships. He’s on the entry record together with world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, who in keeping with documentation is the one unvaccinated participant within the ATP Tour’s prime 100.
Djokovic–who was infamously deported out of Australia due to a canceled visa and subsequently missed the Australian Open–is already in Dubai, the place the WTA event is happening this week. He has made a number of public appearances regarding the Novak Djokovic Basis along with training on the tennis middle.
“I’m excited to exit on the tennis courtroom subsequent Monday,” stated the 34-year-old Serb, who indicated throughout a BBC interview earlier this week that he’s ready to overlook upcoming Grand Slams if being vaccinated is a requirement. “I miss tennis actually after all the pieces that has occurred.”
The Dubai authorities doesn’t require vaccination for guests.
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