Natela Dzalamidze: Russian-born tennis participant modifications nationality to keep away from Wimbledon ban

After Wimbledon introduced the ban on all Russian and Belarusian athletes again in April, the ATP and WTA responded by eradicating all rankings factors that gamers would have in any other case earned for his or her efficiency on the All England Membership.
A few of tennis’ largest stars, together with males’s world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev and girls’s world No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka, is not going to be competing at SW19.
“Participant nationality, outlined because the flag they play underneath at skilled occasions, is an agreed course of that’s ruled by the Excursions and the ITF,” the spokesperson stated.
The ban on Russian and Belarusian gamers has divided the tennis world, and final week, the US Open introduced that it could not be following Wimbledon’s instance later this yr, with gamers from each international locations eligible to compete underneath a impartial flag.