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But to snub your own guy in favor of a kid who has yet to establish himself in any meaningful way on the Tour is particularly short-sighted. Tournaments make these decisions every week and questions of marketability, agency and tournament relations often trump pure merit. As a tournament we have other things to take into consideration.вЂќДjokovic's family put in the wildcard request over a month ago and Novak said he was unaware that the wildcard that eventuallyВ wentВ to his brother had been promised to another player.

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вЂњMarko Djokovic is important to us because he is the brother of the No.1 player in the world,' tournament director and Dubai Duty Free Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications Salah TahlakВ explained. Jaziri won his first round of qualifying before losing to Andrey Golubev on Sunday. Jaziri said he had been told that he would not have to play qualifying, but tournament officials awarded the wildcard to Novak Djokovic's younger brother, Marko Djokovic, instead.

Tournament officials informed Jaziri, the top Arab player hailing from Tunisia, that they would not be granting him a main draw wildcard a mere 14 hours before qualifying was set to begin on Saturday. 1, the decision becomes particularly newsworthy. 869 shares the same last name as the tournament's defending champion and reigning No. That it did so by a last-minute snub of the top Arab player in the world, Malek Jaziri, ranked No.

869 might have gone relatively unnoticed. That the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, a 32-man draw boasting eight of the top 10 players in the world, chose to award a main draw wildcard to a player ranked No. 104, Tunisian Malek Jaziri is the top Arab player in the world.