New Delhi, Feb 16: The 20-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic has revealed that he felt ‘powerless’ during his detention in Australia last month. Australia’s immigration minister Alex Hawke had cancelled Djokovic’s visa as he had not declared his vaccination status. He was denied entry in Australia and spent seven days in the immigration detention.
“It definitely wasn’t pleasant. I don’t want to sit here and complain about conditions in that detention centre because I stayed seven days. Yes I did feel powerless. When I arrived I was not allowed to use my phone for three, four hours,” ABC news quoted Djokovic as saying in an interview with BBC on Tuesday.
“It was the middle of the night from 1am to 9am. I didn’t get any sleep because I was going through questioning every 30 minutes basically. “I had many interviews. They started, and then stopped, and then paused, and then I would wait for the person to speak to his superiors and then he would come back and it went on for the entire night,” he said.
