Mirza has been playing on the professional tour since 2003 and it has been 19 years of the Hyderabadi playing tennis at the top.
Earlier in the day, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that Djokovic will have to prove that he has a genuine medical exemption from COVID-19 vaccination when he lands in Australia or he will be 'on the next plane home'.
The tennis great’s expectation that he be allowed to play the Australian Open without taking the Covid vaccine smacks of the very traits he has eschewed – vanity and elitism.