Tennis
Coach Sventek: “Wimbledon did the right thing by eliminating Russian tennis players”
Tomasz Wiktorowski, who coaches the world’s first racket Iga Swiatek from Poland, talked about the expulsion of the representatives of Russia and Belarus from the Wimbledon tournament.
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“Personally, I think Wimbledon did the right thing by removing tennis players hard from Russia and Belarus. Daria Kasatkina is the only tennis player I contacted from that part of the world. Just like her coach. We are not friends, we do not spend time together, but we do not ignore each other, quite the opposite. We train with Dasha like the only Russian athlete.
The tour took the actions of Russia very softly. Difficult decisions had to be made in advance. We stopped going to China during the Peng Shuai incident, and what happened in February deserves a more serious response. Iga also expressed his views on the war in Ukraine many times,” he said.
It was previously reported that Sviontek had bypassed Angelik Kerber in the status of the world’s first racket within weeks.
Source: Sport UA
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