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UK tennis fined $1 million for Russian ban – media

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The All England Membership and Garden Tennis Affiliation are livid after being slapped with fines, one report says

The Girls’s Tennis Affiliation (WTA) has slapped Wimbledon organizers the All England Membership and the UK’s Garden Tennis Affiliation (LTA) with fines totaling $ 1 million after they banned Russian and Belarusian gamers from tournaments this summer time, in accordance with The Each day Mail.

The newspaper says that the LTA has “secretly” been handed a £620,000 high-quality ($ 750,000) and the All England Membership a punishment of £207,000 ($ 250,000) for his or her stance on excluding Russians and Belarusians from all British occasions.

The WTA had already sanctioned Wimbledon by stripping this 12 months’s event of rankings factors – a transfer which mirrored that of the lads’s ATP tour.

In keeping with the Mail, UK tennis bosses and the British authorities have been angered by the monetary punishments and can search to attraction them, though that may solely be carried out as soon as the fines have been paid in full.

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UK tennis grew to become an outlier when it introduced in April that Russian and Belarusian stars can be banned from tournaments due to the battle in Ukraine.

That stance – which Wimbledon bosses defended as being in keeping with UK authorities steering – ran in direct distinction to the WTA and ATP. Each excursions have allowed gamers from the 2 nations to compete as neutrals.

The French Open allowed Russian and Belarusians to look beneath impartial standing earlier this 12 months – a call which might be adopted by the US Open, which will get underway in August.

The Wimbledon ban meant that the likes of Russian males’s world primary Daniil Medvedev was prohibited from enjoying at SW19, whereas a number of different stars missed out equivalent to Belarusian ladies’s top-10 ace Aryna Sabalenka.

Previous to Wimbledon, Russian and Belarusian feminine gamers have been barred from warm-up occasions at Eastbourne, Nottingham, and Birmingham. The LTA runs the primary two occasions, whereas the All England Membership holds the license for the Birmingham event. 

Commenting to the Mail on the fines imposed by the WTA, UK Tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries claimed that “the LTA and Wimbledon must be praised for his or her transfer to make Russia a world sporting pariah and doing what is true within the present circumstances.”

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Nevertheless, distinguished figures in tennis have criticized Wimbledon and the LTA, with Serbian six-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic calling the ban “loopy.”

The WTA and ATP have each prompt the actions of UK tennis are discriminatory.  

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