the russian tennis player Natela Dzalamidze, 43 in the world in the WTA doubles ranking, changed her nationality to be able to participate in the Wimbledon tournament, the British newspaper The Times published this Sunday.
The newspaper specifies that the 29-year-old player, who is now will compete under the Georgian flag, She will be in the Wimbledon doubles draw partnered with Serbian Aleksandra Krunic.
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In reaction to the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the organizers of the London Grand Slam tournament decided in April to exclude it from its 2022 edition to all tennis players from Russia and Belarus.
Quoted by the Times, a spokesman for the All England Club, which organizes Wimbledon, stressed that the tournament management could not issue an immediate reaction on the news of Dzalamidze’s change of nationality.
“The nationality of a player, defined by the flag under which he participates in professional events, It is a recognized process that is governed by the circuits (the ATP in men’s tennis, the WTA in women’s) and by the International Tennis Federation,” he recalled.
Wimbledon begins on June 27. Before the veto to Russians and Belarusians, the ATP and the WTA They announced that they will not distribute points for their classifications in this edition.
Among the great absentees due to the veto are the world number one, the Russian Daniil Medvedevor the former Belarusian world number one Victoria Azarenka.
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