Novak Djokovic Says He Was ‘Never Anti-Vax’

Despite being turned away from a number of main tournaments over his refusal to get the COVID vaccine, Novak Djokovic is insisting he is not an anti-vaxxer.

The tennis celebrity — who simply secured his twenty fourth main championship with a victory at this month’s U.S. Open — broke the entire scenario down for John McEnroe throughout a latest interview for Omaha Productions’ “McEnroe’s Places.”

Djokovic advised the tennis legend on the present that his gripe with the COVID vaccine scenario was not essentially whether or not it was efficient or something like that … however slightly, the way in which he perceived it was being pressured onto individuals.

“I was never anti-vax,” Djokovic mentioned. “I was always pro-freedom-to-choose. And that’s something that we took really for granted. I didn’t feel like a lot of people had a choice, really.”

Djokovic advised McEnroe that on the top of the vaccine mandates and vax passports — he felt like he was “a villain of the world.”

“I just wanted to compete,” he mentioned, “and I wanted to play tennis because that’s what I do best.”

While nonetheless apparently unvaccinated from COVID, Joker’s seemingly put the entire situation behind him … he is dominated 2023 as far as vax mandates have eased, reclaiming his spot because the No. 1-ranked males’s tennis participant on the planet.

In reality, just some days in the past, Barack and Michelle Obama — two of the largest proponents of COVID vaccines — watched him courtside on the US Open … and cheered him on.