Russian gamers had been banned from the English Grand Slam occasion final yr
A ban on Russian gamers enjoying at Wimbledon will probably be reversed this yr, Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) president Shamil Tarpishchev predicts.
In 2022, the organizers of the annual grass courtroom Grand Slam occasion, the All England Garden Tennis Membership (AELTC), introduced a blanket ban on gamers from each Russia and Belarus as a result of ongoing hostilities in Ukraine.
This meant that extremely ranked gamers such because the Russian duo of Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, in addition to the Belarusian feminine participant Aryna Sabalenka, had been prohibited from competing on the occasion.
The ban got here in distinction to measures imposed by different occasions, such because the US Open which permitted Russian individuals as long as they competed underneath a impartial flag.
On account of the Wimbledon ban, the governing our bodies of female and male tennis, the ATP and WTA in addition to the Worldwide Tennis Federation, withdrew rating factors from the occasion, prompting vital disruption to the rankings system and successfully rendering the occasion to be an exhibition event.
However in keeping with Tarpishchev, no such restrictions will probably be imposed this yr.
“We’ll take part,” he stated through RIA Novosti.
“There isn’t a doubt. The place of the ITF is that athletes are chosen purely by score, and never by nationality in relation to all tournaments in numerous international locations of the world.
“Every little thing else will probably be a violation of the organizers and nobody else.”
Regardless of the ban, final yr’s ladies’s singles class at Wimbledon was received by the Moscow-born Elena Rybakina, who has represented Kazakhstan on the worldwide stage since she was 19.