Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will not be playing an exhibition in Saudi Arabia after all. But it's not for the reason you might think.
Djokovic told BBC that the exhibition, which was scheduled for Dec. 22, will not happen due to Nadal's recent ankle surgery. Both players had been criticized for not calling off the match in the wake of the premeditated killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist and government critic who was murdered at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul last month.
The Saudi government's involvement in the killing has been the subject of debate, and the government's official account of what transpired inside the consulate has changed multiple times.