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Novak Djokovic Finds Harmony and a Lot of Wins

Djokovic missed long stretches of the tennis season because he has refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19. That has only made him more determined.

After a year of tumult — all of it self-inflicted — life is good for Novak Djokovic, at least for now.Credit...Marco Bertorello/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

TURIN, Italy — He has been detained and then deported from one country and barred from entering two others that are major stops on the tennis circuit.

His steadfast refusal to get vaccinated against Covid-19 has forced him to miss large chunks of the season and to figure out how to stay sharp as he waited by the phone for calls that never came telling him that travel rules had changed.