And “lack of courage” lamented by the former Ukrainian tennis player, Alexandr Dolgopolov. “They don’t want to assume any consequences”judged, on March 21 on RTL, the former world number 13, returned to his country, where he exchanged his racket for a weapon to defend Ukraine against the Russian invader. “To worry about Roland-Garros today is a joke, it’s not more important than the lives of thousands of innocent people. Tennis has a very, very loose posture.”
“We only ban an individual athlete if he has been selected by his country”recalled the director general of the FFT, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, specifying that the players concerned will not be asked to publicly oppose the Russian and Belarusian presidents, Vladimir Poutine and Alexandre Loukachenko, to be authorized to play. on the Parisian courts. “At this stage, we do not intend to go into the detail of individual personal situations, which we also know can be extraordinarily dependent on the family situations experienced by each other.” Russians and Belarusians must, on the other hand, respect the principle of “strict neutrality”. Not the most restrictive in tennis.
