Tennis Federation of Ukraine admitted that all accusations against Zukin are unfounded

FTU responded to the letter of Ukrainian tennis players

Ukrainian Tennis Federation acknowledged that all accusations against the Vice President of the FTU Evgenia Zukina groundless.

“President of the Tennis Federation of Ukraine Sergiy Lagur received a letter from professional Ukrainian tennis players, in which charges were brought against the Executive Director and Vice President of the FTU Yevgeny Zukin. Based on these accusations, the authors demanded the resignation of Yevgeny Zukin from all his posts. The letter was signed by: Elina Svetolina, Marta Kostyuk, Lesya Tsurenko, Katarina Zavatskaya, Lyudmila Kichenok, Nadezhda Kichenok, Sergey Stakhovsky, Ilya Marchenko. Subsequently, Katarina Zawatskaya withdrew her signature, ”the FTU press release says.

“The content of the letter was published in the media and social networks. After that, such publication was condemned by Dayana Yastremska, captain of the Davis Cup team Andrey Medvedev, captain of the Billie Jean King Cup team Mikhail Filima, a significant number of representatives of the Ukrainian tennis community.”

“On July 7, an extraordinary meeting of the Presidium of the FTU was held, at which the accusations against the executive director and vice-president of the FTU Evgeny Zukin were considered. During the meeting, the facts given in the letter were verified. They were found to be untrue. Surprise was also expressed why the players who signed the letter did not even try to communicate about their accusations with any representative of the Presidium of the FTU and with the President of the FTU.

“The Presidium of the FTU admitted that all the accusations are unfounded. Based on the results of the voting, it was determined that there were no complaints about the activities of Yevgeny Zukin in his posts. FTU President Sergey Lagur personally informed about this (sent e-mails) to all initiators of accusations against Yevgeny Zukin.”

Ukrainian tennis players demanded that Zukin be fired from his positions in the Ukrainian Tennis Federation, the ITF Davis Cup committee, the ITF referee position and the deprivation of any powers in the International Tennis Federation.

Recall that Zukin, summing up the match between the Ukrainian team and the United States (2:3) in the Billie Jean King Cup, spoke negatively about some Ukrainian tennis players, who, in his opinion, refused to participate in the duel with the Americans.

The functionary said that he “hopes that Ukrainian tennis players will change their attitude towards playing for the national team and will be patriots not only on Instagram.”

Source: Sportarena

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