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Russian and Belarusian players allowed to compete at Wimbledon - BBC News

Mar 13, 2024
We'll stick with that story now, with the organizers of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships announcing that Russian and Russian biala athletes will be able to

compete

this summer, but as neutral competitors we're joined now by our reporter Russell Fuller, who is at Wimbledon. For us today, Russell tells us what they've decided: They've decided that

players

from Russia and Belarus will be able to

compete

alongside everyone else in the same way they do in the other Grand Slam tournaments at the Australian Open. The French Open and the US Open, assuming these

players

accept that they will be under a neutral flag, will also have to sign a personal statement that will say that they do not support war, they will not show their support for war that they do not receive state funding to be able to play and that for the All England Club is the fundamental difference 12 months later, they are not saying at all that the situation in Ukraine has improved at all, but they are saying that they feel that these personal statements that the players will make now are viable and executable.
russian and belarusian players allowed to compete at wimbledon   bbc news
They also point out the effect continuing the ban would have on British tennis. There is a financial element to that and also the fact that they have called into question the entire viability of British grass. Cut the summer season given the threats to the various tournaments being held by circuits that were so unhappy with the decision made last summer to ban Russians and Belarusians what will be the likely reaction of other players, well , players are going to be very widely in support of this because they were always uncomfortable with the concept that players could be banned due to the actions of their government, they were uncomfortable seeing players being banned based on nationality, tours called out that discrimination, they can absolutely understand the circumstances and the terrible events that have occurred in Ukraine in the last 12 months, but overall they will be relieved that the rule changes for 2023, where of course it will not be welcomed at all;
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Within the group of Ukrainian players there are many of them who feel that Russians and Belarusians should not be

allowed

to play tennis period, not just at Wimbledon and on the grass courts in the UK, and there have been a couple of players who They have talked quite a bit in recent days, one of them, Lesia Tarenko, has spoken. about a panic attack he said he had before playing in Belarus' Arena savalenka at a tournament in Indian Wells in California earlier this month, he also spoke about an ethical conflict every time a Ukrainian has to face someone from Russia o Belarus on the field of the match.
russian and belarusian players allowed to compete at wimbledon   bbc news
Russell for the moment thank you very much Russell Fuller from Wimbledon
russian and belarusian players allowed to compete at wimbledon   bbc news

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