PARIS: Ukrainian avid gamers don’t get sufficient give a boost to from ladies’s Tennis governing frame WTA amid Russia’s invasion in their nation, Elina Svitolina mentioned on Tuesday.
Svitolina, again at the excursion on the Charleston Open after a maternity wreck, spoke to give a boost to fellow Ukrainian participant Lesia Tsurenko, who mentioned she withdrew from the Indian Wells event as a result of a panic assault caused by a dialog the 33-year-old had days previous with WTA leader government Steve Simon about tennis’s reaction to the Russian invasion.
“We are afraid, we feel empty. What is happening to Lesia is very sad. People who haven’t experienced it can’t really understand what it feels like to have no home, to feel safe nowhere, to have family in Ukraine, Under the bombs, to know that Ukrainian cities are being destroyed. It’s both fear and a great emptiness,” Svitolina, who was once the arena primary when she took a wreck from the excursion to offer start, informed French sports activities day-to-day L’Equipe.
“The WTA should have done more, much more, on many issues. Now it’s too late. There have been a lot of press releases, a lot of interviews. It was useless,” she mentioned.
The WTA, in conjunction with males’s frame ATP, welcomed Wimbledon organisers’ resolution to raise a ban on Russian and Belarusian avid gamers closing Friday, letting them compete within the grasscourt Grand Slam this yr as “neutral” athletes.
Last week, Ukrainian tennis participant Marta Kostyuk mentioned International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach was once improper to argue that Russian and Belarus athletes can go back to global competitions as a result of they already compete with out friction in some sports activities.
Asked what her response can be if they’d be allowed to participate in subsequent yr’s Olympics in Paris, Svitolina mentioned: “I don’t think about it. It’s up to the Olympic Committee and the Ukrainian Committee to think about it and do their job! My job, as a player, is to get ready.”
Svitolina, again at the excursion on the Charleston Open after a maternity wreck, spoke to give a boost to fellow Ukrainian participant Lesia Tsurenko, who mentioned she withdrew from the Indian Wells event as a result of a panic assault caused by a dialog the 33-year-old had days previous with WTA leader government Steve Simon about tennis’s reaction to the Russian invasion.
“We are afraid, we feel empty. What is happening to Lesia is very sad. People who haven’t experienced it can’t really understand what it feels like to have no home, to feel safe nowhere, to have family in Ukraine, Under the bombs, to know that Ukrainian cities are being destroyed. It’s both fear and a great emptiness,” Svitolina, who was once the arena primary when she took a wreck from the excursion to offer start, informed French sports activities day-to-day L’Equipe.
“The WTA should have done more, much more, on many issues. Now it’s too late. There have been a lot of press releases, a lot of interviews. It was useless,” she mentioned.
The WTA, in conjunction with males’s frame ATP, welcomed Wimbledon organisers’ resolution to raise a ban on Russian and Belarusian avid gamers closing Friday, letting them compete within the grasscourt Grand Slam this yr as “neutral” athletes.
Last week, Ukrainian tennis participant Marta Kostyuk mentioned International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach was once improper to argue that Russian and Belarus athletes can go back to global competitions as a result of they already compete with out friction in some sports activities.
Asked what her response can be if they’d be allowed to participate in subsequent yr’s Olympics in Paris, Svitolina mentioned: “I don’t think about it. It’s up to the Olympic Committee and the Ukrainian Committee to think about it and do their job! My job, as a player, is to get ready.”