Olympic champion and former world number one Yevgeny Kafelnikov told that he respects the leaders of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for their stance on the issue of admitting Russians and Belarusians to the tournament. Wimbledon.
On Friday, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), which is the organizer of Wimbledon, announced the admission of Russians and Belarusians to the competition in a neutral status and under certain conditions. In particular, athletes will be prohibited from publicly expressing their support for SVO at the tournament, receiving funds from states, and also having state-owned companies controlled by Russia and Belarus as sponsors.
– Learn one simple thing, that the WTA and ATP are very strong organizations that fight for their employees. And when unfair decisions are made against their employees, as was the case that year, the organizations simply did a wise thing – for the first time they deprived Wimbledon of ranking points for not allowing Russians and the Belarusians, and said: if you repeat this, then there will be a repetition of history.
I know this for sure: they told the organizers of Wimbledon in the form of an ultimatum that they would deprive the licenses of the wonderful Eastbourne tournaments, which are scheduled before Wimbledon, and they had no choice but to accept These conditions. So there would be more organizations of this type.
I bow to the WTA and the ATP. I am very happy to have also worked in this organization. If other organizations had the same leaders and unions, such cohesion would be good, Kafelnikov told .
Russian and Belarusian tennis players have been suspended from the Wimbledon tournament in 2022 due to events in Ukraine. For this, the organizers of the competition were fined one million dollars, and the WTA and ATP deprived the tournament of ranking points.
Wimbledon 2023 will take place from July 3-16.
Source : MatchTV
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