Ukrainian tennis players are requesting by a letter to the WTA, ATP and ITF a strong hand in Russian and Belarusian tennis players.
Then Wimbledon issued a statement banning all Russian and Belarusian players from participating in the tournament, the ukrainian players of the circuit decided to write a letter asking for a strong hand in the next international events and responsibility on the part of colleagues who could make the support visible through social networks and thus also reach a larger audience.
Sergiy Stakhovsk She shared the writing on her social networks. When the aggression began 50 days ago, he had to enlist in the army because of the situation in his country. The letter calls for Russian and Belarusian athletes to be excluded and banned from competing in any event. They also demanded that both the WTA, ATP and ITF ensure that Russian and Belarusian tennis players answer three questions:
1. Do you support the invasion of Russia and Belarus on the territory of Ukraine and as a result the war of those countries started?
2. Do you support Russian and Belarusian military activities in Ukraine?
3. Do you support the regime of Putin and Lukashenko?
Athletes consider the silence on the part of other tennis players to indicate infidelity and complicity in the aggression and the Russian governmentas well as they say that having so many followers on social networks should make them take sides and talk more about what’s going on. They themselves have made many efforts to help their country, from public writings, to enlisting in the army or donating their incomes..
Wimbledon: the official statement
The Wimbledon tournament will ban Russian tennis players, including world number two Daniil Medvedev, and Belarusians from competing as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine. In this way, it became the first major competition to ban individual athletes from participating, after Russia was ousted from tournaments such as the World Cup in Qatar and other team tennis competitions such as the Davis Cup and Billie Jean. King. Cup, where they defended the titles won in 2021.
This is the first time Wimbledon has banned people from a particular country since the years after World War II, without allowing Germans and Japanese to play the London Grand Slam.
Source: Tycsports
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