LONDON, Jan 25 — A first ever Grand Slam final featuring two players from Belarus remains a possibility while a Russian also remains in contention at the Australian Open—a...
LONDON, Jan 25 — A first ever Grand Slam final featuring two players from Belarus remains a possibility while a Russian also remains in contention at the Australian Open—a scenario that will not have gone unnoticed by the organisers of Wimbledon.
Khachanov, Azarenka and Sabalenka were all absent from Wimbledon last year as the grasscourt Grand Slam took the unilateral decision to exclude players from Russia and Belarus as a consequence of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a special operation. “I hope. I don’t know. I mean, the last information that I heard was, like, maybe one week ago that the announcement will be in couple of weeks,” Russian Andrey Rublev, who lost his quarter-final to Novak Djokovic, told reporters in Melbourne.
Australian Open organisers even banned Russian and Belarusian flags from Melbourne Park last week after a complaint from Ukraine’s ambassador to the country. “Obviously this is an horrific situation which is going on in the war and people deal with it in different ways,” McEnroe told Reuters in a video conference arranged by Eurosport.
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