After skipping two news conferences during the French Open, Aryna Sabalenka — the No. 2 women's tennis player in the world — says she doesn’t support war or Belarus’s president Alexander Lukashenko right now.
, Belarus’s support for that invasion and how that horror has ransacked tennis, particularly the women’s tour because of its considerable number of Ukrainian players. Sabalenka, who is Belarusian, previously had presented a mixed bag of statements that included opposition to the war, but had reeled afterAt one point Tuesday, she got the question which referred to the Belarusian president and Russia ally Alexander Lukashenko: “You say you don’t support war.
Asked if she thought Sabalenka sought to inflame the situation Tuesday, Svitolina said, “Yeah, I think so, unfortunately.”Sabalenka seemed anything but inflammatory as she calmly answered questions after two rounds of taking questions only from WTA representatives and not the general media.
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