MELBOURNE: A protester jumped onto the courtroom and interrupted play at a vital stage of the Australian Open males’s singles closing between Russian world quantity two Daniil Medvedev and Rafael Nadal of Spain at Melbourne Park on Sunday.
Safety officers promptly made a human defend across the gamers as some others dragged the particular person, who appeared to hold a banner studying “abolish refugee detention”, off the courtroom on the Rod Laver Enviornment.
Nadal was making an attempt to save lots of a breakpoint whereas serving at 5-3 up within the second set because the particular person fell awkwardly from the stands behind Medvedev’s finish of the courtroom, halting play for a couple of minutes.
The Spaniard, who’s chasing a twenty first Grand Slam title, went on to lose the sport and the second set in a tiebreaker.
Earlier this month, protesters criticised Australia’s harsh asylum insurance policies when top-ranked Novak Djokovic was held in an immigration detention resort after his visa was revoked on his arrival at Melbourne.
The Serbian was ultimately deported from the nation after a courtroom upheld the federal government’s choice to cancel his visa, capping days of drama over Australia’s Covid-19 entry guidelines and his unvaccinated standing.
Safety officers promptly made a human defend across the gamers as some others dragged the particular person, who appeared to hold a banner studying “abolish refugee detention”, off the courtroom on the Rod Laver Enviornment.
Nadal was making an attempt to save lots of a breakpoint whereas serving at 5-3 up within the second set because the particular person fell awkwardly from the stands behind Medvedev’s finish of the courtroom, halting play for a couple of minutes.
The Spaniard, who’s chasing a twenty first Grand Slam title, went on to lose the sport and the second set in a tiebreaker.
Earlier this month, protesters criticised Australia’s harsh asylum insurance policies when top-ranked Novak Djokovic was held in an immigration detention resort after his visa was revoked on his arrival at Melbourne.
The Serbian was ultimately deported from the nation after a courtroom upheld the federal government’s choice to cancel his visa, capping days of drama over Australia’s Covid-19 entry guidelines and his unvaccinated standing.