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Novak Djokovic has legal options, but they are narrow.

Novak Djokovic’s lawyers said on Friday night that they would challenge the Australian immigration minister’s decision to cancel his visa again, but experts said that he would find it much more difficult than his first court challenge.

If he doesn’t want to simply comply with the cancellation and leave the country, he will need to apply for a court injunction to stop the Australian authorities from deporting him while his lawyers file a challenge, according to Mary Anne Kenny, an associate professor of law at Murdoch University.

That would allow him to stay in the country, but he would most likely be held in immigration detention, where he was kept for five days before his first court challenge.