Is the video about the tennis player true, who could not complete the match on the Australian Open 2022?

A video spreads in social networks, which captures how the Slovenka Dalila Yakupovich cannot continue the game due to breathing problems. Internet users associate this with vaccination from Covid-19. We checked the reliability of the video.

Open championship is traditionally held in January Australia - One of the four large helmet tournaments, the largest and most prestigious competitions among tennis players. In 2022, the organizers ordered all participants to get used to the COVID-19. There were few players Released From this obligation for valid reasons, among them the leader of the world ranking Novak Djokovic. However, unlike the organizers of the tournament, the Australian authorities Not considered his honey detergent is a sufficient condition for entering the country and sent The first racket of the world from Australia, which provoked a scandal.

Then, in social networks, they began to distribute a video with the participation of the Slovenian tennis player Dalila Yakupovich. The camera captured how the athlete first begins to breathe heavily, and then falls directly on the court. In some posts on Facebook, users are directly Binded what happened with vaccination, authors of Russian -speaking publications Described The situation is more evasive: "Strange things are happening at the tennis tournament in Australia, which are in no way connected with what someone was expelled from the country." Similar publications are possible detect And in VKontakte.

Internet users who distribute the video and connect the captured on it with vaccination from coronavirus, it was not embarrassed that Yakupovich Not mentioned Among the participants of the Australian Open 2022. According to the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), the last time a 30-year-old athlete Participated In official competitions in November last year, when she arrived at a small tournament in Estonia. Judging by the posts on Instagram, when the participants on the eve of the championship passing in Melbourne flew to Australia, Yakupovich I was In Dubai.

How found out Our colleagues from the AFP Fact Check, in fact, these personnel were shot two years earlier. January 14, 2020 a similar video Published The British edition The Guardian. Although Koronavirus was already distributing, before the announcement of the pandemia by the World Health Organization It remained about two months, and before Beginning Mass vaccination in developed countries is almost a year.

The reason for the breath problems, because of which Yakupovich removed the Australian Open qualifying match in the year before last was not vaccination at all. At the turn of 2019 and 2020 in Australia We raged the largest forest fires, because of which the organizers of the tournament had to postpone Training in open courts and even a number of games. Despite the measures taken, Yakupovich I could not To play your match due to breathing problems that arose in connection with poor air quality in Melbourne.

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