In April, Wimbledon joined the growing number of federations and governing sports bodies worldwide that banned athletes from Russia and Belarus:
Rybakina eventually moved to Spartak Tennis Club in Moscow and trained alongside former top-10 player Andrei Chesnokov. She started representing Kazakhstan in 2018 at the age of 19. The Kazakhstani offer to support her careerWhat was Wimbledon’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
“In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships.” “Everybody wants to compete. They were not choosing where they were born,” Rybakina said. “[I] just hope that next year is going to be back to normal.”
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